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SPHINX RELIGION . - - - - I, 65

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY - - - - - - 3

FATE–AND CHEATING IT . - - - - I2

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF VIRGO . 24

A GLIMPSE of WILLIAM LILLY . - - - - - - - - - - - 27

THE ASTRoLoger’s VADE MECUM - - - - - - - . 29, 97, 160, 228, 304

LETTERS BY G. T. F. SMITH - - - - - - 41, 154, 238

THE ASTROLOGIC DRAGON 49

THE WINTER SOLSTICE 52

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DAILY ADVICE - - - - - . 55, I 16, 187, 253, 316THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY . - - - - - . 59, 122, 193, 258, 312

Notes AND QUERIES - - - - - . 62, 125, 195, 324

BRITANNIA’s STAR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 67

CHILDREN —THEIR SEx AND THEIR LONGEVITY . - - - - - - - - 71

NATURE’s ANALOGIEs . - - - - - - - - - - - - - 76

A CHALLENGE AND ITS RESULT . - - - - - - - - - - - 82

PROVE ALL THINGs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 87

THE MYSTERY OF RECTIFICATION 90

AN ILLUSTRATED HoRoscope - - - - - - - 92

THE CHARACTER AND ForTunes of LIBRA . - - - - - - - - - IO4

THE ART OF RAISING PoulTRY . - - - - - - - - - - - Ioô

THE ENGINE OF FATE . - - - I io

FATALITY - - - - - - - - - I2 I

A FAMOUs PREDICTION . - - - - - - - - - 129

AN ITALIAN ORATION - - - - - - - - - - - I34

PEOPLE WHO MAKE MONEY . - - - - - - - - - - - - 137

A SIGN of THE TIMEs . - - - - - - - - - - - - I39

I SAw A StAR FALL FROM HEAVEN . - - - - - - - - - - I4 I

HoRoscope BY ONE OF THE RAPHAELS - - - - - - - - - - I44

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THE CHARACTER AND Fortunes of Scorpio - - - - - - - - - I 52

AN ASTROLOGIC CourtsHIP . - - - - - - - - - - - - 167

THE PLANETARY TYPES . - - - - - - - - - - - - - 182

GO THOU AND DO LIKEwise . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

THE RESURRECTION OF EGYPT . - - - - - - - - - - - 2OI

NATIVITY OF PRINCE PRISDAN - - - - - - - - - - - - 2O5

PROGNOSIs . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 218

“THE NAME OF THE STAR IS CALLED WORMwooD '' . - - - - - - - 22I

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNE OF SAGITTARIUS . - - - - - - - 225

THE SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETs - - - - - - - - - - 232, 287

MR. Bickerstaff's PREDICTIONs for THE YEAR 1708 - - - - - - - 243

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM . - - - - - - - - - - - - 265

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY . - - - - - - - 269

HoROSCOPE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - - - - - - - - - - 275

A GRUBSTREET ELEGY ON PARTRIGE . - - - - - - - - - - 283

THE TRUE AND ONLY METHOD of Delivering JUDGMENT on Nativities by Position . 291

THE CHARACTER AND ForTUNEs of CAPRICORN . - - - - - - - - 3OI

A SOLILOQUY. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 322

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[James Bonwick, F. R. G. S. “Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought.”London, 1878.] -

It is certain that the statue is of Cephren of the Pyramidtimes, in some way, perhaps, the patron of the sphinx temple.

But there is no evidence of his being its

constructor. It is,

in

all probability, much more ancient than his day. Well, then,

may some style it,

“the oldest religious monument in theworld.”

- * -Doubts have been thrown out as to its being a temple at all.

It may have been a mausoleum. Even Mariette said: “Theexterior appearance is

,

we must declare, rather those ofa tomb.

Further, the monument may present itself to the visitor asa

mastaba, hardly greater than those we find, for example, at

Abousir and at Saqqarah. In the interior a chamber shows sixsuperposed niches, which have the air of being constructed, as

those of

the Third Pyramid, and of the Mastabat-al-Faioum, forreceiving mummies.”

Mr. Fergusson inspected it as an architect, admiring its sim

ple, grand, yet chaste style. Polished granite and beautifulalabaster form its sides. He might reasonably, at first sight,

conclude it could not be a temple; for he tells us: “No sculptures o

r inscriptions of any sort are found on the walls of this

temple, no ornament or symbol, nor any image in the sanc

tuary.” But it is now pretty well understood that primitivetemples in all

lands were devoid of image worship. He noticedthe fact of

its having no

roof. But it is equally clear that primi

tive temples were open to the skies, like our own Stonehenge.

i

2 the SPHINX.

The fact of no remains of a roof being found is the strongest

possible argument in favor of its being a temple, and not a tomb.

M. du Barry Merval calls it a votive chapel belonging to Cephren, and so a dependency o

f

the Second Pyramid.

That which astonished Mr. Fergusson, and strikes others with

a sort of awe, is the form of

the building. “The principalchamber,” says he, “IN THE FORM OF A CROSS, is supported by piers, simple prisms o

f Syenite granite, without base

or capital, and supporting architraves as simple in outline as

themselves.” But the cruciform character of the temple, whichhas descended to churches o

f

Christendom to our own day,

simply testifies to the very ancient veneration paid to the sym

bol of

the cross in Egypt, as in India, Peru, etc.

As the presence of the name of a king on a statue is no guar

antee that it is a representation of himself, but of some one before him, o

r

of

some deity taken under his patronage, so it hasbeen suggested that the splendid figure found in the pit, was not

that of Cephren, the king, but of

the god Harem-chu, or

Horusin the Horizon.

Believing it to be a temple, Renan asks, “To whom was thetemple dedicated?” This is his reply: “Without doubt to thesphinx, or, rather, to the divinity represented by the sphinx,

Horem-hou or

Armachis. The temple, it is true, does notdirectly face the sphinx; but the entrance passage inclines by

design toward the colossal monster.”

[To be continued.]

SIR REDVERS AND THE FORTUNE-TELLER.

"A NATIve of Crediton tells the following new story of Sir RedversBuller. When the General was only a child o

f

six or

seven he was on

a

visit with his parents to a sea-coast town in Devonshire. There he had his

fortune told by a gypsy, who declared that the boy would be very success

ful in life, and that, before the century was out, he “would sit besideprinces.” If the gypsy meant “sit beside princes” in the House of Lords,her prediction will probably be fulfilled, for when the war is over, which

will surely be before 1900 has run its course, Sir Redvers will in all

proba

bility be called to the House of

Peers.

— The London Globe, December, 1899.

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY. 3

£13tro=|\brenology.(Continued.)

It is generally conceded by psychic experimentalists that inthe spiritual or rather noumenal world, Space and Time are butthe effects of psychic sympathy and antipathy. Every man isnear to or distant from that sphere to which his inherent nature

is allied or opposed. We, who are accustomed to think in

terms of three-dimensional space, are apt to think of the planetJupiter as being considerably more distant than Mars or Venus,

but at such times as the spiritual eye is opened, it is seen that

this thought is the result of the perception of an externalappearance merely, and not of a truth.Astrology, so far as it relates to the internal man, demon

strates this fact in the common observation that persons in

whom the principle of Jupiter is strong, respond more readily

to the affections of that planet in the sidereal world than tothose of Mars, which yet is a nearer planet to this earth— thepassive center of such affections — on which all planets actaccording to their natures.

And the reason for this effect is that the superior frontalregion of the brain is related to the planet Jupiter, as I havealready shown, and hence the Sympathetic or Altruistic principles of the mind are in the Jovian nature more active than

the Self-regarding faculties which function through the Central

Basilar region of the brain by correspondence with the planetMars.

In the Psychic World, therefore, a man may be nearer theplanet Jupiter than Mars. We ought continually to bear thisin mind, and to remember that the planets act upon us first by

means of the Sidereal body, and afterwards by means of the

Ethereal or Lunar body.

With so much by way of a preface, I may now present, withthe hope of an intelligent appreciation, a few of the more striking statements of Emanuel Swedenborg in reference to the

4 The SPHINx.

nature of the planetary spirits and their action over the mindsof the earth-born.

SATURN.

The spirits from this sphere appear in front, below the normal plane of vision, on a level with the knees.

In astrology, Capricornus rules the knees under the dominion of theplanet Saturn. The knees are directly related to the devotional group offaculties, and the bending of the knee (genuflexion) is the result of theactivity of the devotional faculties.

They are modest, and esteem themselves but little. Hence they

appear to be small. They are extremely humble in worship,

considering themselves as nothing, and when filled with a sense

of error they wish to die, and inflict great austerities upon them

selves. They have relation to the middle region between theintellectual and natural.

It has been already shown that the government of Saturn in the humanbrain extends through the superior middle region in which the devotional

faculties function, and it is well known that Saturnine subjects are given to

austerities, and are of a melancholy, retiring disposition.

They are not given to congregate, but live divided into distinct families, appearing in pairs apart. They take small

account of food and raiment, living on the roots of plants and

the fruits of the earth, and clothing themselves scantily. They

have no care for the body except in so much as it is necessaryto the ends of life.

This is quite in accord with the austere reclusive and sober-mindedsubject of Saturn. When perverted, the Saturnine disposition is towardsmiserliness and mere worldly ambition.

JUPITER.

Swedenborg is very voluminous in regard to the spirits of

Jupiter, concerning which he was given to know more than was

the case in regard to the other planets, as he himself says. Thisis not to be wondered at when we reflect that he was born

under the sign Sagittarius, with Jupiter in the ascendant. Consequently he was in closer relations with the intelligence of that

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY. 5

planet than any other of the system. And since locomotionin the spirit world is only a successive change in the state ofindividual consciousness, he took less time to reach Jupiter thanMars, to which latter his nature was not so closely related.The planet Jupiter, he says, is as full of inhabitants as thatglobe can support; it is very fertile, and everything necessary forlife is abundant. The Jovian desires no more than suffices forthe means of sustaining life, nothing being necessary that is not

useful. Their principal care is the education of their children,

whom they love most tenderly. They live together in clans,

are devoid of covetousness, and have a rooted aversion to war,

depredation, plunder and violence. They are in a state of vir.

tue and innocence, being good for its own sake, loving justice

and speaking only what is true by a voluntary frankness. Theirinfluence is gentle and sweet. They are of a benevolent disposition, and shrink from hurting one another. They bear nomalice, and disagreements are speedily adjusted between them.They are of tranquil mind, light-hearted, and have no anxiety

about the future. Their sincerity is such that they consider ita sin to avert their faces, and are ashamed to turn their backs

upon those in whose company they are; and because the face isthe expression of the mind they are scrupulous as to it

s

clean

liness. Their skin is unblemished, the countenance being open

and sincere, with a smiling, cheerful expression, and a fulness

of

the mouth about the lips, and they converse by means of thelips and the eyes, but without audible speech, their thoughtsappearing in their faces. They are sociable and convivial, andprolong their repasts for the pleasure of one another's society.

All wholesome food seems to them to be savory, or they make

it so in a wholesome manner. The interior of their dwellings

is colored a pale blue, and the walls and ceilings are studded

with gold stars to represent the heavens. They form no other

idea of

wisdom than that of justice and virtue; and of sciences

such as

we have among us they know nothing, nor have they

any desire to know. They say it clouds the spiritual vision, by

means of

which they intuitively perceive what is just and true,

while science leads to reason and hence to doubt, which is not

6 THE SPHINX.

light, but shadow. They have relation to Imaginative Thought

in man; i. e., intuition.

In these characteristics one may readily perceive the ordinary type ofthe pure Jovian of astrology. The generous, frank, naive disposition, theinnocence that is almost culpable in a practical world like ours, the strong

sense of justice, the gentle disposition and the acuteness of the intuitivesense, are characteristics commonly observable in the pure Jovian subject.

The hatred of war and oppression is due to the antipathy existing betweenJupiter and Mars, the former being exalted in Cancer while Mars is exalted

in the opposite sign, Capricornus. Their distaste for sciences is due to theantipathy between Jupiter aud Mercury, the latter being the astrologicalsignificator of science, opposed to Jupiter by having it

s

dominion in thesigns Gemini and Virgo opposite to Sagittarius and Pisces, the signs o

f

Jupiter. It will thus be seen how Jupiter has direct relation with theFrontal Coronal region o

f

the brain in which are located the organs of

Intuition, Benevolence, Joviality, etc., the Sympathetic and Humane group

of faculties, in a word.

MARs.

The spirits of the planet Mars, says Swedenborg, applied

themselves to the left temple, in the form ofa gentle breeze

which passed to the upper part of

the left ear.

This corresponds to the Central Basilar region of the brain, in whichare located the organs o

f Executiveness, Combativeness, Self-defence, etc.,

under the dominion of

the planet Mars.

Among them the affections are represented in the face and thethoughts in the eyes, acting in unity. They account it infamous

to think one thing and to speak another, or to will one thing

and to pretend another. They know not what hypocrisy is,

norfraudulent dissimulation and deceit.

This is so exactly the character ascribed astrologically to the native of

the planet Mars that one might almost suspect Swedenborg of

an intimate

knowledge of

the horoscopical science, did one not know that he had no

occasion to borrow this particular page to complete a revelation so exhaustively luminous o

n a thousand other subjects. I may here remark thatSwedenborg speaks mainly of

the better order of spirits attached to each

sphere, though occasionally of

others. Therefore only the pure types of

the several planets are given in this place. The egotism of

the evil spirits

of

Mars is something superlative that it would be difficult to find itsparallel among men o

f

this earth. It is only when Mars mingles its influ

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY. 7

ence with Mercury in a geniture, either by being in the first, ninth or third

house in a mercurial sign, or in conjunction with Mercury, or in evil aspect

thereto, that dissimulation, pretence, and fraud are apparent.

The spirits of Mars have relation to the middle region, between the Intellectual and Voluntary; i. e.

,

to thought arising

from affection; and as this is their relation in the Grand Man

(Marimus Homo), the middle province which is between thecerebrum and cerebellum, corresponds to them.

This statement accords with the conclusions drawn from astro-phrenology, o

r

that aspect ofit which I have presented to my readers. What

Swedenborg calls the Grand Man others may prefer to call the spiritualcosmos, a

s not necessarily involving the idea ofa definite form such as the

human, since all definition means limitation, and all limitation means imper

fection when referred to Deity, though the revelation to mankind of

thatDeity must needs be in the Human form.

When the spirits of

the earth intrude upon those from theplanet Mars, they become a

s if affected with madness andinsanity.

The action of Mars on the Earth-born is here shown to be of a violent

nature, and it arises not from the evil nature of those Spirits, but from thenatural antipathy existing between the two spheres, whereby Mars comesAstrologically to b

e regarded asa malefic, and the most potent cause of

insanity and violence. Even the vegetation of

the two planets is seen to

be ofa contrary nature, following upon the law of Correspondences, the

Earth’s “green livery" being the opposite of

that in which the “redplanet” is clothed. Hence also the vitreous fluid in the human eye on this

Earth is so chemically disposed that we may look upon green with the leastpossible irritation o

f

the sense, while red is the most irritating of

allcolors, and so used by the Toreador (Scorpio) when enciting the Bull(Taurus) to attack, and latterly by medical men for the treatment o

f

certain diseases of

the mind, such as melancholia, etc. (cf. La nuova

Scienza, dal. Díte. Albertini.)

They know how to make fluid fires, by which they have lightduring the evening and night.

Here we have trace of

the influence of Scorpio, the fluid martial sign,

which, as I have shown elsewhere, has dominion over inflammable oils.

They delight in representing things in glowing colors, such as

crimson, scarlet, ruby, etc.

8 THE SPHINX.

These are martial colors, and are commonly regarded as such among

astrologers.VENUS.

In the planet Venus there are two orders of spirits (men) ofcontrary dispositions; the first being of a mild, humane nature,

the second savage and brutal.-

In astrology there are the two signs of Venus, Libra, which is a humanesign belonging to the airy triplicity, and Taurus, which is a bestial sign

belonging to the earthly triplicity.

Those who are mild and humane appear on the other side of

the planet, while those who are savage appear on the hitherside.

This statement is remarkable, and seems to suggest a knowledge of thefact that Venus (Astarte) revolves once on it

saxis while performing one

revolution in its orbit, as does our Moon, and hence that there is always

one side of

the planet continually turned away from the Sun, as shown by

Delambre, and later by

Schiarparelli.

The spirits of

the humane disposition correspond to the

retention (memory) of material things, as those of Mercury to

the retention of

immaterial things, and the association of

these

two orders of spirits is of

the most agreeable nature.

The influence of the planet Venus is therefore centered in the posterior

basilar region of

the cerebrum, corresponding to the adhesive or

socialgroup o

f

faculties. The influence of Venus when in conjunction withMercury in any horoscope is certainly o

f

the most agreeable nature,

rendering the mind docile, gentle, persuasive, agreeable, mild and humane.

The spirits on the hither side of the planet which are of themore barbarous nature are delighted in robbery, are fond o

f

eating, and are of gigantic proportions, caring nothing about

religion, but wholly taken up with the care of their land andcattle.

-

These are, in a degree, attributes of

the sign Taurus, which is bestial,

alimetive, acquisitive, allied to agriculture (being an Earthly sign) and

cattle of

the Bovine species, as

the name Taurus suggests.

MERCURY.

There are spirits whose sole study is the acquisition of knowledges, finding in them their greatest delight. These spirits are

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY. 9

from the planet Mercury. They are allowed to wander about,

and even to pass beyond the solar system into others, to procure

knowledge.

The insatiable thirst for knowledge evinced by the peripatetic Mercuriiis well defined in Astrological works. Mercury in the Greek mythology isthe messenger and Interpreter of the Gods, and quite sufficient reason forthat avocation is advanced by the Swedish seer.

The spirits of Mercury have relation to the memory of immaterial things.

The intellectual memory is functionally seated in the Frontal Basilarregion of the cerebrum, where Mercury governs the expression of theintellectual faculties.

They are capable of sifting out of another all particulars

contained in his memory, and this they do in the most skilfulmanner, running over them as if reading from a book. They

do not linger over what is slow and heavy, and hence take nodelight in material things, but only in the ideas of them drawn

from the memory. The men of that planet converse with thespirits, from whom they get knowledge of the life after death.They are exceedingly annoyed when any knowledge is hiddenfrom them, or when the mind is closed against them so that they

cannot search it,

and so they are consumed with an intellectualjealousy and envy, while yet there may be nothing therein thatthey do not themselves know. When they have learned allthey can in any quarter they depart, and do not come again

or

some time. Hence they appear inconstant. On account

of

their knowledge, the spirits of Mercury are more conceitedthan others. But this elation, they say, is not from conceit, but

from joy in their mental capacity. Thus they have the art of

excusing themselves.

These traits are very common among those born under Mercury, and no

better statement of

the leading characteristics of

the person born under

the dominion of Mercury is to be found in astrological literature than is

here set down by

Swedenborg from revelation. Those under Mercury arecapable o

f

the most intense intellectual jealousy, as I have myself frequently remarked, and they are very subtile where the gain o

f knowledge

is concerned. This I have found in otherwise well-disposed and faithfulpeople.

IO THE SPHINX

The spirits of Mercury excel but little in the faculty ofjudgment. They are not concerned with conclusions drawn

from knowledge (philosophy), but their delight is in the bareknowledges (science).

Astrologically, Jupiter governs the faculty of judgment, and it is opposed

to Mercury in the spheres, as Sagittarius is to Gemini and Pisces to Virgo.

Pisces, which rules the feet, corresponds to the understanding, while Virgo,

which rules the bowels, corresponds to the faculty of secretion, and henceto memory.

The spirits of Mercury do not tarry in one place, but wanderthrough the universe. They go about in companies or phalanxes, moving as one body. Their speech is quicker than ourthought. They are wont to present opposite things to theirinterrogators, not with the intention to deceive, but to inspire

the desire for knowledge, and it is difficult for them not to prevaricate. They will not tell what they know, but always wantto learn what others know.

By this we learn that those under the influence of Mercury are peripatetic, intelligent, voluble in speech, gregarious, disposed to prevaricate,

inquisitive, steadfast in their pursuit of knowledge, jealous in its keeping,

disposed to brain-picking and ransacking the minds of

others. It willthus be seen that Mercury corresponds to the intellectual, divested o

f

the

affectional, and hence to knowledge apart from uses. Therefore Mercury

corresponds to and has influence in the frontal basilar region of

the brain,

as

has already been shown.

In pursuing the study of this subject I would recommend myreaders to give some attention to the following works: “TheFour Complexions,” and “Signatura Rerum,” by Jacob Boehme;

“The Brain,” by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by DoctorTafel; and the “Regnum Animalum,” also by Swedenborg.

In addition to these, a standard work on Phrenology. I wouldalso recommend a study o

f

the horoscope of

the PrenatalEpoch a

s presented in my new “Manual of Astrology,” for it is

from this epoch that the brain development is determined in

accord with inherent faculty, the horoscope of

birth being of

chief account in the expression of

such faculty. The epoch

represents the man in evolution by horoscopical synthesis,

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY. I I

while the horoscope of birth represents the man embodied, and

under the limitations of environment, concerning which something was said in the opening of this treatise.

SEPHARIAL.[Concluded.]

FACULTY IN HERENT NOT ACQUIRED.

THE human machine is built to act in a given way. As it isbuilt, so it yields it

s appropriate product in literature, art, science, or

what you will. Assuredly it cannot be trusted to turn out all

kinds

of

work equally well. I doubt whether Shakespeare could havefought the Spaniards a

s valiantly as Drake, and I am sure that

Drake could not have written a good “Hamlet.”# # #

DR. SMILES, in his famous biographies, tells us how we might all

be great poets, or inventors, or philanthropists, if we chose. If we

chose ! There's the rub. What Dr. Smiles omits to tell us is why

some choose and others do not; or, in other words, why some have

the faculty and others have not of taking up the various distinguished

careers held out to them. If he showed us that, there would, I fear,

be an end of

his admirable thesis, because he would be obliged to

recognize that not only the more positive attributes of genius, but

even the faculty of perseverance or industry which enters so largely

into many kinds of

intellectual supremacy, though not into all, is a

natural endowment depending upon certain inborn combinations of

nerve-cells and fibres in the brain and spinal system. What Dr.

Smiles preaches is a sort of

intellectual Socialism— a generalequality theory, which is as false in the intellectual domain a

s it is in

the physical. As well tell a puny hunchback that he may, by takingthought, become a

n Adonis asa youth of

stunted mental capacity

that he has it in him to become a Milton or an Edison if he tries

Dr. Smiles might, in short, with equal propriety, and, I believe, withequal effect, try to teach u

s all how to be notorious criminals as how

to rival the great men who swarm in his philanthropic pages. So

far as the biographical facts go, of

course I am with him. Whatthey prove to my mind is that the secret of genius, like that of crime,

and, indeed, all

mental and physical divergencies from the average,

lies too far below the surface to be got at either by the schoolmaster's

cane or

the preacher's maxim.

J. F. NISBET, “THE HUMAN MACHINE.”

I 2 THE SPHINX.

jfate –ano Cheating 1ſt.“I note,” said Mr. Lawrence, “that the possibility of divine intervention

does not enter into your calculations.” “I am not so presumptive, sir, as tothink,” replied the solicitor, “that God Almighty would either disturb thelaws of nature or suborn an English jury ! and with no desire to be personal, I beg to observe that al

lsuch blasphemous presumption invariably

emanates from the Church 1” THE HERB-MOON.

THE word fate, like stigma, is a broad term involving twosides like a medal,— obverse and reverse, but popular usage

and tradition has resolutely kept one face turned downwards

like a bad shilling nailed to the counter by a British huckster.

Hence we have grown to speak of fate and fortune as a pair of

balanced opposites, notwithstanding that good and evil are

blended in mixed proportions in any and every destiny of

fate.

There is a capriciousness of public interpretation that may evenbe deemed the fate o

f

the word. Note how the word stigma

carries an odium with it; for while the Greek word simply

implies a mark or puncture, yet alike it has been employed as

denominating the branding of

the Roman conscript and slave,

and the miraculous crucifixion wounds (stigmata) present upon

the bodies of

certain holy men afore time— and perhaps uponSome modern sinners.

When the prestidigitateur produces the live rabbit from the

inside of your own silk hat, you know very well that it could

not have been there originally, and that the little rodent waswhipped from the magician's sleeve o

r

some other convenientreceptacle; if he uses his own o

r

some one else's hat, and does

not show you the interior before performing his experiment,

you prefer to concede that the rabbit was already nibbling the

maker's name from the silk lining previous to production. Just

so in the case of

the Pharisee and the astrologer. If the latterunearths a fate from a horoscope, striking and consistently true

in all points, the former cannot but admit it was connected withthe figure the artist in stars shows him, and so with an event in

FATE — AND CHEATING it. I 3

his life which he could not very well regulate. What says thePersian Assadi, as rendered by his French translator? In esO homme/ le miroir des deur mondes: il faut que tu tº

y

consideres attentivement, aftn qu' au travers d

e

ce qui paroit, tu

decouvres ce qui est cache. And that is true also.

Let us try to look at the actuality of fate in its proper light;

so shall we recognize whether it constitutes a necessity, oris an

illogical and uncontrollable tyranny. “Truth lies hidden at thebottom o

fa well,” but perhaps even an accommodating tin

dipper may be able to bring up to the surface a portion ofa

very desirable commodity in the nineteenth century snufflebusterand sliddersladder market.

“Fate (fatum)” in a general sense denotes an

inevitablenecessity depending on some superior cause. It is a termmuch used among the ancient philosophers a

s implying primarily the same a

s effatum, a word or

decree pronounced

by God, a fixed sentence whereby Deity has prescribed the

order of things, and allotted every person what shall befall

him. The Greeks called it epiapplem, quasi epub, merus, achain, o

r necessary series of things indissolubly linked to

gether.

All things, says Plato, are in fate, i. e. within its sphere or

scheme, but all things are not fated; and he thus explains the

distinction: it is not in fate that one man shall do so and so and

another suffer so and so, for that would be destructive of

our

free agency and liberty; but if any one should choose such a

life, and do such and such things, then it is fate that such things

and such consequences shall ensue upon it.

The soul, therefore, is ačearrorov, free and uncontrolled, and it lies within itself

to act or not; and there is no compulsion or necessity here;

but what follows upon the action shall be accomplished,

ka' epiappevny, according to fate or the constitution of things,

e.g. that Paris should bear off Helen by force was somethingdependent on himself; but that a war should ensue is the consequence Er Alcinoo de Platon. Dogmat. Hierocles observesthat choice of

action is in our own power, but the just

reward or

retribution of good or

ill which ensues upon the

I 4 THE SPHINX.

choice, lies in the breast of these etherial judges who areappointed under God. But besides this sense of the wordwherein it is used, sometimes to denote the connection of causes

in nature, and sometimes in the divine appointment, the word

fate has a farther intention, being used to express a certain necessity or external designation of things, by which all agents,

both necessary and voluntary are swayed and directed to theirends.

Fatality as Cicero defines it is an order or series of causes,

wherein cause being linked to cause, each produces the other,

and so all things flow separate from one primal cause. Chrysippus defines it a natural invariable succession of all things a

ff

atterno, each involving the other. To this fate they subjected

even the gods themselves suggesting that Deity constructed

laws at

the beginning which bound not only other things, buthimself. So Seneca : Eadem necessitas e

t deos alligat. Irrevocabilis divina pariter et humana cursus vehit. Ipse illeomnium conditor et rector scripsit guidem fata, sed sequitur:

semel scripsit, semper paret. This eternal series of causes thepoets called Moupa ara Parces — the Destinies.Physical fate is an order and series o

f

natural causes appropriated to their effects. This series is necessary, and the necessity is natural. The principle o

r

foundation of

this fate is

nature, or

the power and acting which the primal creative

efflux originally imparted to the several bodies, elements, mixtures etc. By this fate it is that fire warms, bodies communicate motion to each other, the sun and moon occasion the tide

etc., and the effects of

this fate are all

the events and phenomena

in the universe except such as arise from the human will. Divine

fate is what we now usually call Providence. Plato in his Phaedo

includes both these in one definition, as intimating that they

were one and the same thing, actively and passively considered.Thus, Fatum est ratio quaedam divina, league naturae comes, quae

transiri requeat, quippe a causa pendens, quaº superior sit quibusvis impedimentis. Boethius is clearer and more just, Fatum

est inharens rebus mobilibus dispositio, per quam. Providentia

suis quaºque nectit ordinibus.

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These definitions are usual, and for that reason we give them,

but now we come to that last and to us more important order;viz., Astrological fate, the necessity of things and events arising from the positions and qualities of the heavenly bodies,

which give law both to the elements and mixed bodies likewise.

In this sense Manilius: Certum est et inevitabile fatum :materia”que datum est cogi, sed cogere stellis.

We are greatly afraid that in face of the eternal immutablelaws of the zodiac and stars, that the mere theoretical opinions

and deductions of the schoolmen will have to go to the wall —in major part at all events. We shall affirm a fate present andfunctioning apart from our will, a necessity of fate and a necessity of action, but we shall deny in toto a freedom of actionexcept in circumscribed limits; the limits are imposed by thenativity of birth. We go further than theoretical disputation,

and are prepared to prove practically that there is a fate metedout to each individual that can be foreknown and is at certain

times and periods unconquerable.

Most astrologers are accustomed to modify all ideas offatality by an avowal that one is only the sport of destiny whenignorant of functioning astral influences, and that the man whoputs in for a five-dollar horoscope gets also a kind of talismaniccharm calculated to withhold him from his evil fate, and topush him headlong into the vortices of health, wealth, power

and ease. Here one is told that supposing a martial direction

is forming, portending a feverish complaint, by rushing away

to a cool, healthful place the threatened misfortune slides by ;there, if a Saturnine aspect forewarns of colds, agues, etc., awarmer place will put a

ll right. We, ourselves, generally give

the devil his due, for we have found him cuter than anyone else,

either in or

out of our own particular circle. Dear, dear! if

the practitioners of

the astral art avowed unreservedly that thestars in their courses were superior; that their effects could not

be parried; that no friendly God was at

back to put out a

saving hand (full of dollars after a bad week on

the turf or

'change); that sinners and saints had got to feel the lash indiscriminately, and that the stars not only shone but compelled, or

I6 THE SPHINX.

something very like it,

why — well, we should never have anydollar o

rfive-dollar horoscopes to cast.

It is well, then, to get down to rock bottom and explain matters a little more thoroughly regarding some especial views.The reader may expect an avowal of fatalism from us, but no

such thing is to follow, for we believe it is possible to mitigate

horoscopical effects in a certain minor degree, but to a much

less extent than will commend astrological ethics to the mere

mortal. There are no rules to deliver for the practice of a littlesaving grace, and we do not think that American citizens, whosit, you know, after all “a little lower than the angels,” aregoing to make a “corner” in them. But there is a universalhankering common to every man's soul, and sometimes we call

it Hope. Reading in a French journal the other day, an apt

illustrative anecdote popped up, which satirizes the whole subject admirably. Here it is: Diseur de bonne aventure : Vous

resterez pauvre jusque'a l'age de trente-cing ans.— Poete

(avidement): Et apres 2— Vous, vous y habituerez. And

after twenty, thirty, forty, fifty,+ will sixty hold, too?—Wheredoes the anxious query cease?—What then? Eh bien, vousvotes y habituereg /

Some poet has sung “the fate of things lies always in thedark,” but does it? Even if it did, the dark places we assumemight be illuminated, but scarcely with a

n ancient horn stablelantern which casts about as much shade as light; no, a modernsearchlight would be more approximate to the needs: “There

is no

darkness but ignorance,” says he of all

time.

Nature or

essence always implies the positive existence of

substantial beings, so where there is no

real essence there can

be

no

real existence; and consequently darkness and shadow,

which are only the absence of light, and space, which is only

the absence of body, are no real essences of physical fates, but

mere nihilities or nonentities; or

at

least have only a model

existence in the ideas of

our minds. If we postulate a necessity

of fate, there follows indubitably a necessity of

action. Necessity o

f

fate is a very obscure idea, and signifies a thing is,

because it must be, or

because its

not being would imply a con

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tradiction to its nature; necessity of action, on the other hand,

is that which is founded in the nature of things, and must produce the cause of that action. This is sometimes called Fate,

or

the Fatality of Actions.

Somehow one gets to know almost the distinguishing peculiarity o

f

the events and lines of

action which are as

one

might say, his own personal property,+ to sense the character

of

the fate that one expects from long association with its

idiosyncrasies. Some people seem to feel intuitively— apartfrom association — that a certain class of accidents or occurrences will never fall to their share; say for instance realdanger from falls, violence, drowning, etc., and to apprehend

the direction on the other hand in which the events of their

destiny will function, the relation they bear to the rest of theirlife, and the method in which they develop and terminate. Theconstant, as we might term it

,

in our own life involves us in a

class of

sudden events which cause much mental and nervous

distress, end chaotically and generally indifferently. With thegreatest show o

f reason, schemes, objects, proposals are thrust

before us

in the rosiest and most insinuating manner whichlong experience has taught if embraced will make headway for

a while with much amount of vigor and promise, but ultimately

end to our discomfiture, regret and sorrow. The philosophical

attitude we have engendered and encouraged in ourselves has

enabled us

to smile weakly at

the audacity and thin disguise of

these approaches. If we do not pass on we at least scent thegame, do not make too free with Ma'm'selle Hope, and have a

short run just for the fun of

the thing, for it is good exercise

to try the powers of one's philosophy in this practical manner,

and ignore that comedy is so intimately near to tragedy

“What” exclaims Maeterlinck “are the signs that set apart

the creatures for whom dire events lie in wait? Nothing is visible and yet all is revealed.” He answers his query after his

own fashion, and considering how heis handicapped approxi

mates very closely to the actual truth. The philosophers of

the half-gods are disappointing in one respect: their smatterings of mysticism do not carry them far enough; they have

I8 THE SPHINX.

not properly seen or understood; they continually break down

when they approach the greater truths, as though one in leaping a barrier should after a magnificent attempt, pull up orreturn distrustful of his powers. They reach out for a theoretical, hazy, almost non-existent mysticism, and refuse to grasp

the palpable. Thus they never succeed in realizing the ends of

life or the beginnings of fate, but remain apt pupils self-deprived

of means or opportunities. The half-gods with them neverdepart; the gods never arrive. Better the cold truth with onemighty plunge than the half truth with a quartan ague.

How some prophets and seers under the guise of dramatistsand poets, scholars and seekers astonish at times even the metaphysical thinker by the profundity of their mystic morality

Maurice Maeterlinck, aspires for a static theater, Ibsen andChrist, speakers of parables, Swedenborg and Schopenhauer,

Gothe and Savonarola. How, equally, upon them descend therevilings and execrations of stiff-necked generations ! What havethey done? Delved for truths, each in his own way and thrownup incidentally old mouldy and rotting bones which offend the

refined and self-conscious susceptibilities of the crowd. Most

of us know the fable of the cock and the jewel. It appliesto humanity a

ll through. The cry is,

“Give us wherewithal to

feed our stomachs for a great nation goes upon its belly! ”

Through how many uncountable ages have we toiled andmoiled and fashioned ourselves that we may now in thisdeparting nineteenth century give expression to a fresh truth,

write a new Leviticus, choose a companion soul, discover a

long awaited stellar law, postulate a physiological hypothe

sis, resolve a dynamic problem? Never too long, but merely

sufficient to procure the ability; neither excess nor a falling

short. “Look you Hilda, look you ! ” exclaims Ibsen's MasterBuilder, “There is sorcery in you too, as there is in me. It is

this sorcery that imposes action on

the powers of

the beyond.

And we have to yield to it. Whether we want to or not wemust/" And again, for example, Schopenhauer: “We hadfancied we could a

t

least choose our loves in freedom, but weare told that a thousand centuries divide us from ourselves when

FATE– AND CHEATING IT. I9

we choose the woman we love, that the first kiss of the betrothed

is but the seal which thousands of hands craving for birth, haveimpressed upon the lips of the mother they desire,” well, thereis the profoundest truth at back of these statements.

We have already commented upon the apparent knowledgepossessed by some people of apprehending the channels of theirfate, the sensing of what can come to them and what cannot,

which ability is to a greater or less extent planted in every one's .soul,- a kind of clairsentience, to coin a new word, as distinctfrom clairvoyance and clairaudience, which are perhaps more

admirable states. But however latent the power may be— andit may be cultivated as much as some others — it is possible bymeans of the astrologic art to drag it to light and dissect andexamine it for the edification of the subject.

The fate of a very young child is involved. It is manifestlydependent. The form has no volition of it

s own, the Mind doesnot occupy her throne, the Soul finds everything unformed,nothing to her hand, the machinery working stiffly, action

reflex. Every child is not so advanced at one month old as

that we heard of the other day. Its mother was rocking the

cradle and cooing it to sleep; suddenly it turned over andcocking a weary eye at her exclaimed bitterly, “old womansay, when'll you get through? I've had about enough of thatblarney. If you want to get me to sleep just read me the leading article in the New York Times. I might drop off then "

Yet however, although the ancient astrological liars who sat up

o' nights concocting delightfully unreliable aphorisms, averred

that the child's fate in these early years was so closely boundup in that of it

s parent's that directions out of

its

own horoscope

fell rather upon the persons responsible for its being than upon

itself, notwithstanding, we must digest the statement cum granosalis.

We can dwell upon the matter a little more at length. Every

person born into this world passes his life in a certain environment—like a tadpole before it breaks its glutinous covering.

Whether he is supposed to make that environment or

have it

thrust upon him does not affect the question in the least, since

2O THE SPHINX.

it is an attribute of existence not to be shaken off or parted

with. It is the fate of the man, and whether we say it or hechanges a similar thing happens. Of course to anyone it appears an uncalled-for statement to say that the life of the child

is bound up in that of its progenitors and is intimately affected

by their welfare, misfortune, calamity, alterations of place, livelihood, morality, etc. But it extends further and ramifies deeper

than that, and is governed by natural laws and reasons. The

fourth and tenth houses ofa nativity are appropriated in the

mundane scheme to the parents, and these twin divisions form

the environmental poles of

the first and seventh sections, which

touch the chord of

that born ; so while the ascendant and itscomplement the occident indicate the native, the fourth andcomplementary tenth environ it

,

endow it with a restricted functioning area, lengthen o

r

shorten the line of fate, write across

its path, “Thus far shalt thou go but no farther.” And so

since parents and environment (fate) are blended in the horoscope, the action and reaction for some years is equal between

them until such times as the independence of

the ego is assured

and the faculties are able to distinguish, act, reason and perform.

The fourth house, however, is particularly important in an environmental sense. It retains this dominating influence throughlife and is equivalent to the zodiacal sign Cancer ruled by thechangeable moon; this presupposes the continual changes of

environment, physical, mental or psychical every life is subject

to. If the luminary at birth occupy Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or

Aquarius this environment will not be subject to such greatchanges, but will be more fixed in character and will retain in

much greater degree some few special modes, channels, or

traits.

It may be conceived that as the first four years of life areruled by the moon and that body is so closely associated withfourth, much notice during this stage must be paid to the lesserlight both as affected by direction and in radix. But it is quite

wrong to suppose that directions in a child's nativity will fallupon the parents, unless indirectly by action upon the offspring.

Besides, the radices of parents and progeny may be

so clearly

FATE — AND CHEATING IT. 2 I

dissociated for the mutual advantage and workings required

between the two schemes, so utterly at variance,—in fact the

child's nativity may endow it with properties, requirements,

fate, which cannot possibly be carried to completion in association with it

s parents. It must have an environment for whichthe parents' nativities are inadequate. What happens? It diesimmediately, o

ris introduced into its proper environing circum

stances, L is adopted. Frequently the fate line is synonymouswith pater and mater for some years, and then the break occurs.

The environmental conditions no longer coincide, the path diverges and opens out into two, and the one chosen by the several travelers is that which fulfils the needs of the birth. The

divergent paths may reunite again later on and so provide stati

which for the time being are suitable for the several parties concerned to function in. The cases of adoption o

r early separa

tion from parental modes and conditions, mostly show moon in

fourth, but of course there are various indications which cannot be detailed here. Out o

f

half a dozen horoscopes in the

author's possession whose owners early separated from their

native home and home-life, five have this position, while the

sixth has Uranus in fourth and the moon in Cancer (the zodiacalfourth). We can see then, that since the fourth mansion of the

heavens (and Cancer) govern the home-life, one of the parents,

the environment, the end of life and general fate, they becomevery important considerations in the general scheme o

f birth,

and their relation with moon to the early life and subsequent

destiny is pronounced and all-powerful. From them we canjudge the domestic predicaments and the general tendency o

f

our workaday life, and the appearance we cut at the end of it,

for it exhibits the translation from physical to psychical. Butwe cannot decide the question o

f

rank from this factor because

at any one moment it is possible for two births to occur, one in

a nobleman's family and the other in an utterly plebian, instances

of

which we gave in our previous paper on twins. This, however, raises a point which we can neither hope to include or

attempt to settle in this article, namely, the influence of heredity; but it appears very evident that the birth act does not

22 THE SPHINX.

and cannot fix the environment and status of rank, the qualityor extent of social resources.

The fourth house is that of the grave and thus concealment

and concealed things; it is the algebraic r. Likewise it bearsrule over the place of dwelling and the town in which oneresides; but it must be distinctly understood that the sign onthat house does not necessarily coincide with the town's ruling

one. Naturally, in every town there are living members of eachof the twelve sections of the zodiac, and a dozen such good citizens embracing the whole circle of the zodiac will exhibit adozen different signs on fourth. Clearly that is not what ismeant, or what really is the fact. The house and sign in thiscapacity would rather indicate the amical or inamical nature of

the place of abode to the native.

We set out in this article to treat upon the necessity of fate,among other things, but this subject must regretfully go to the

wall in our present issue, space having nearly run out. Whatsay you? We have not yet told you how to cheat fate? Well,

we do not see very well how you can, for it is exactly thosethings which you most wish to escape that most inevitably willnot be overruled. There is not much comfort in knowing that

while you were broke for $50,000 you managed to get out oflending a friend a fiver— or a tenner as the case may be Onemay dodge but the X ray of destiny turns up the light at theprecise moment and the rigorous grasp of celestial force tightens

like the grasp of a monster sea-devil. To use an expressionsavoring of the ropes, “You have got to stand and take yourpunishment.” There are, however, a certain class of minor selfmotived acts which may stand apart from this dictum in somesense, inasmuch as they are within the native's power to avoid.

It is these upon which experiments may be made, and gaintraced. One must not expect to foil the oncoming energy, or thatdirection towards one, but the outgoing stands in different stead,

for an amount of guiding and restricting capability is here pos

sible. It is somewhat difficult to convey to the non-astrologicalmind the exact position, but it may safely be said that while the

native is bound down to the wheel of fate like Ixion, he can only

FATE — AND CHEATING It. 23

move in certain circumscribed limits; the big things of the horoscope are not going to be avoided by the most strenuous battlings, but the little proposals may. It seems that our quotationshave been so far numerous enough to disallow further negotiations

in that quarter; but they are mostly modern instances and curtlysuggestive, and so we crave leave to introduce a final one from

a singularly human and lovable soul, to wit, R. Louis Stevenson: “I do not believe there is any form of words underheaven, by which I can lift the burden from my shoulders.I must stagger on to the end with the pack of my responsibility; I cannot shift it; do you suppose I would not if I thoughtI could P I cannot— cannot — cannot — and let that suffice.”But again, if one has constructed bad destiny in the past andcannot now revoke or revert it

,it does not follow that he should

do such for the future. At the rate we are traveling, cheatingfate might become a more universal and popular occupation

than it now is,

and especially among that section ofthe public

which pays over to his pet astrologer that the predictive art may

be exercised in his behalf and to his ultimate benefit, if !The basis of astrologic prediction lies in the fact of certaincelestial unanimities and invariable natural laws known to the

prevoyant. If such laws could be overridden and broken at

will the astrologer's prophesyings would never ultimate either

as regards character or

event. The lost world cannot be restored

to you but you are free to create.

“What's done we partly may computeBut know not what's resisted.”

Better be a stoic than a mugwump or

snufflebuster. No,

you just can't cheat Fate. And don't you try to turn cantankerous with a

n

old friend like that whos been blazing you a

trail through the woods ever since you were born. If youquestion it

,

turn back and see the chips for yourself.

HEINRICH DAATH.

24 THE SPHINX.

Che Character ano ſortuneg of Üirgo,

THE children of Virgo attain honors and fortune by theirown exertions and merit. This sign gives unbiased reasoning

power, a love of justice, natural piety and honesty. No sign

exceeds it in gentleness, courtesy and natural kindness. Thewill, although firm, is flexible. Its natives are intelligent,

ingenious, and tenacious of their opinions. They are notquickly angry, nor do they make it up easily, but their anger

is not formidable and they can easily forgive. Virgo oftengives a preference for celibacy and an attraction for a spiritual

life and the liberal arts; also natural eloquence and persuasive

power. With the taste for the fine arts there may be an inclination for a country life, agriculture and gardening. Virgo people

nearly always have a hobby, or collect something. They arequalified for serious study and the higher sciences. The passions

are usually moderate and the opinions variable. Virgo some

times gives danger in infancy or in early life. There is nearlyalways great difficulty in acquiring wealth, and even that laboriously acquired is liable to loss in the first half of life, later,

better fortune comes, and the acquisition or recovery of family

property. Although this sign presages fortune acquired byintelligence or labor, either at some art or invention, or someemployment of a more or less religious nature, there is always

a menace in regard to the position, and the reverse will be inpart due to the native himself, rather than to circumstances orthe influence of others. Sometimes money is acquired by long

journeys. The relations to some extent are more injurious thanhelpful. There may be many brothers and sisters, but therewill be discord with them, and the premature and even violent

death of some of them is probable. There will be mysteries

in the family either by illegal unions or by illegal separations.

There is a liability to premature loss of children either by falls

from high places, by drowning, or by animals. As a ruleVirgo people are not always virtuous in their private life, in

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF VIRGO. 25

fact it is often the reverse, but in some corner of their heartsthey have always a more or less ideal sentiment of love, spiritual

in its

essence like that of Dante for Beatrice, a feeling happilyexpressed by the Frenchman who said: “j”ai une femme dans

la tete comme il’y en a peu, qui m'empeche d'aimer les femmes

comme il’y en a trop / " (I have a woman in my mind of a rarekind, who prevents my loving the women of whom there aretoo many.) Virgo always portends some violence or misfortune

in love matters, lawsuits, ruptures, separations. The struggle

to acquire means and position will be relatively severe, but thenative will, after numberless delays, eventually succeed. The

native will have religious inclinations, and often takes refuge

from the noise of Vanity Fair in the quiet seclusion of

the

monastic life. If the Virgo native marries, it may be morethan once,— the partner may be a widow o

r widower; thechange will be one for great good o

r

evil in the life. Theheritage promised is small and may be the cause o

f

violent disputes. The native will probably take long journeys — bycompulsion sometimes, either to seek fortune in a foreign land,

or

on some mission or embassy for important people. In any

case frequent journeys are indicated. As already observed, theposition will be difficult to establish, the native having nothing

to help him but his own merit and efforts, but success is almostcertain. Being achieved by conquest, it is on that account morehonorable and permanent. (Shakespeare, Dickens and R

.

L.

Stevenson, all born under Virgo, are good examples of thisand other characteristics given.) The profession, however, willbe a source o

f danger. There is a great aptitude for the physi

cal sciences. The friends will be few, changing, and of littleadvantage; some friendships formed in travel will be the mostremarkable, but even these will efface each other consecutively.

There will be secret enemies in the world of art or finance, who

will cause a money loss by risky speculations. The organic weakpoints are the stomach, the liver, and the legs. Virgo people

are generally of

medium stature, slender and well proportioned,

long limbed, the voice sometimes weak or shrill, the complexion sanguine, dark brown or

black hair, rather broad face,

26 THE SPHINX.

often handsome, with a finely modelled forehead, full in thetemples, and a bright, intelligent expression. Under favorableconditions they long retain a youthful look. The higher notes

of the sign are Intellect and Purity. According to the climatethe temperament is lymphatic or nervous lymphatic.Every sign has thirty degrees, each decan or ten degrees of

which has a subinfluence of another (or the same planet):

I. Ruled by the Sun. Timidity, artistic, mechanical andscientific aptitudes, sorrow, privation, and sometimes restraint orimprisonment, a long life usually spent away from the busy

haunts of men.

II. Ruled by Venus. A sense of order and economy, sometimes avarice, sobriety, patience in work, an active imagination

of an ideal character, an artistic literary nature, kind, genial andsocial, full of bright allusions and dialogue, fortunate in theacquisition of property and in artistic pursuits, some falling off

in the family fortunes, and a tendency to domestic quarrels.

III. Ruled by Mercury. A love of gambling, an unproductive and destructive nature, great calamities in life through themarriage partner or the family, a quick, alert, scientific andartistic nature, inclined to literature, talkative and restless,

versatile and clever in business, gain of position and property

by personal merit, natural aptitude for medicine and hygiene,very particular in diet and clothing, many changes of residence.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Virgo rising at their birth.- Ed.

A COSTLY COMMA.

It seems that some twenty years or so ago, when the United States, by

its Congress, was making a tariff Bill, one of

the sections enumerated whatarticles should b

e

admitted free of charge. Among the many articles

specified were “all foreign fruit-plants,” etc., meaning plants imported fortransporting, propagation, o

r experiment. The engrossing clerk, in copying the Bill, accidentally changed the hyphen in the compound-word “fruitplants” to a comma, making it read, “all foreign fruit, plants,” etc. As

the result of

this simple mistake, for a year, or

until Congress could remedy

the blunder, all

the oranges, lemons, bananas, grapes, and other fruits wereadmitted free o

f duty. This little mistake, which anyone would be liable

to make, yet which could have been avoided by

carefulness, cost the Gov

ernment not less than $2,000,ooo.

A GLIMPSE OF WILLIAM LILLY. 27

H (5limpse of Ülilliam TLilly.

IN the delightful letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir WilliamTemple, written between the years 1652-54, and published in1889, we get in the 65th letter addressed to that fortunate man,

an unflattering glimpse of William Lilly, who no doubt wrote agood book on horary astrology, but was on his own showing

a good deal of a humbug and political weathercock. For example with an engaging candor he thus explains his political

creed: “I was more Cavalier than Roundhead, and so takennotice of: but afterwards I engaged body and soul in the causeof the Parliament, but still with much affection to his Majesty'sperson, and unto Monarchy, which I ever loved and approvedbeyond any government whatsoever.” He also published, afact with which his enemy Gadbury did not fail to reproach

and belabor him, two entirely different horoscopes of himself,

which we hope later to publish and analyze. It is doubtfulwhether outside horary astrology on which we have no testimony but his own, he was really a fine astrologer at all. Acontemporary whose name escapes us at present, Burnet? says

that for 20 years he carefully studied his annual predictions, butthat they were outrageously bad and never verified. To thisthe ingenuous reader may reply “What about the famous pre

dictions of the Great Fire and Plague of which the pictorial

symbols have been so often reproduced P” The simple answeris that Lilly on his own confession had no exact knowledge asto when within ten years those events would take place; and

that in the notorious sanitary condition of a London that wasthen almost entirely built of wood both calamities were mundane probabilities that required no ancient wisdom to foresee.

In our opinion an astrologer who cannot accurately date war,pestilence, earthquakes and other great events, as the first and

second Zadkiel have done literally hundreds of times with amazing exactitude for over 70 years past, is not entitled to boast of

his vague impressions when something similar happens. How

28 THE SPHINX.

ever we are digressing from our starting point which was to relate

the impression made on this incomparable lady by a visit to themost famous astrologer of his time in England: —“You must give me leave to entertain you thus with discourses of thefamily, for I can tell you nothing else from hence. Yet now I rememberI have another story for you. You little think I have been with Lilly,and in earnest I was, the day before I came out of town; and what doyou think I went for 2 Not to know when you would come home I canassure you, nor for any other occasion of my own; but with a cousin ofmine that had long designed to make herself sport of him, and did notmiss of her aim. I confess I always thought him an impostor, but I couldnever have imagined him so simple a one as we found him. In my life Inever heard so ridiculous a discourse as he made us, and no old woman

who passes for a witch could have been more puzzled to seek what to say

to reasonable people than he was. He asked us more questions than wedid him, and caught at everything we said without discerning that we

abused him and said things purposely to confound him ; which we did soperfectly that we made him contradict himself the strangest that ever you

saw. Ever since this adventure, I have had so great a belief in all things ofthis nature, that I could not forbear laying a peascod with nine peas in itunder my door yesterday, and was informed by it that my husband's nameshould be Thomas. How do you like that ? But what Thomas I cannotimagine, for of all the servants (she means beaua.) I have got since I camehither I know none of that name.”

It will be seen however by the above that these ladies werenot fair to poor Lilly, who naturally could not answer a ques

tion or questions that were asked without sincerity for a fest.This letter undated comes between two written the 4th and 20thJuly 1654. We fancy that the moon at the interview musthave been in conjunction with Uranus, and the Sun or planet

that was Lilly's significator in bad aspect to Uranus or Neptune,

both of course then unknown, hence the mystification and

mutual disappointment: though the writer knows one astrologer who if he had been fortunate enough to be visited even injest by so bright and charming a spirit as Dorothy Osbornewould have remembered it to the end of his days'

KYMRY.

Qūbe

Elstrologer's lyabe (IISecum

Rules and Examples for Rectifying a Nativity.

Rules and Examples for Computing the Longitudes

of the Cusps.

Rules and Examples for Calculating a Table ofElements.

Rules and Examples for Calculating all

Directions.

Rules and Examples for Computing the Cusps fromTables o

f Oblique Ascension.

Rules and Examples for Computing an Ephemeris

from a Nautical Almanac.

Tables of Fourth Terms.

Tables of Proportionals,

Tables of Right Ascension.

Tables of Declination.

Tables of Ascensional Difference.

Tables of

Artificial Lines and Tangents.

Tables of Proportional Logarithms.

THE NEW RULES witH THE EXAMPLES AND TABLES willMAKE THIS THE MOST COMPLETE AND DESIRABLEWORK ON ASTROLOGY EVER PUBLISHED.

BY

PROF. W. H. CHANEY,Author o

f Chaney's Annuals; Chaney's Ephemeris;Chaney's Primer o

f Astrology, etc., etc.

1900

29

TO

Catbatime b. (Ibomp30m,

WHOSE EARNEST DEVOTION TO ASTROLOGY HAS PROMPTED

HER TO UNDERTAKE, AT GREAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICE,

THE PUBLICATION OF THE BEST AND LARGEST MAG

AziNE ON ASTROLOGY EVER ATTEMPTED, AND

WHOSE GENEROUS PATRONAGE BESTOWED

ON ME, Now IN MY EIGHTIETH YEAR,

HAS AROUSED A MEMORY THAT

CAN SUBSIDE ONLY WITH

SUBSIDING NATURE,

Cbig upolume ić ſºogt (3ratefully Ecoicateo.

W. H. CHANEy.

9 North ASHLAND Ave.,CHICAGO, ILL.

3o

"I hold all men for sluggards who care only to usewhat they have got, without preparing for new seedtime and new harvests of knowledge."

De Augmentis. Book VI. Chap. 3- Bacon.

"For my name and memory I leave it to foreignnations and the next ages."

TO

CATHARINE VICTORIA THOMPSON

WHOSE EARNEST DEVOTION TO ASTROLOGY HAS PROM PTED

HER To UNDERTAKE, AT GREAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICE,

THE PUBLICATION OF THE BEST AND LARGEST

MAGAZINE ON ASTROLOGY EVER ATTEMPTED,

AND WHOSE GENEROUS PATRONAGE BESTOWED

CN ME, NOW IN MY EIGHTIETH YEAR,

HAS AROUSED A MEMORY THAT

CAN SUBSIDE ONLY WITH

SUBSIDING NATURE,

This volume, "THE WADE MECUM OF ASTROLOGY"

is Most Gratefully Dedicated

William H. Chaney,9 North Ashland Ave.Chicago, Ill.Jan. 1900

"The Sphinx" MagazineVolume II, page 30Shelf No. 7920a 39Boston Public Library

Drcface.

BEFORE any attempt is made to calculate a Figure of SolarReturn, Progressive Revolution, or especially, Primary Directions of any kind, it is of the highest importance that theNativity should be rectified, no matter how positive the parentsmay be as to the exact moment of birth. My patrons have oftenbeen astonished to learn that their births occurred twenty orthirty minutes earlier or later than the time given them. My

mother told me that I was born Sunday morning, just after midnight, but the dates of the most important events of my life show

that my birth was half an hour earlier, being not only the daybefore, but the week before.

The date of marriage, or of a serious accident, or of thedeath of a parent, are the most reliable events by which torectify. Moreover, if some of the events occur before marriage,

select the earliest event, and do this in all cases. The date

of marriage is most frequently chosen, but if more than onemarriage, always select the date of the first. If a person doesnot marry till past thirty, then I have found that the date ofmarriage is less reliable for rectifying.

In the case of Catharine H. Thompson, the lady who is thesubject of the following calculations, I tried dates of death offather, brother, and date of marriage, but the discrepancies weretwenty or thirty minutes between the time given and the times

thus found, though all showed that Gemini was rising. Hermother's death was the earliest event, and working from that Ifound the discrepancy very slight. She informed me that her

father was very particular to note the exact moment of the birthof all his children and the minute of the birth of each was

entered in the family Bible.

This Nativity constitutes quite an interesting study in Astrology, for she had a twin brother, born half-an-hour earlier than

her own birth, who died of consumption, Aug. 16, 1874.

“Then why did she survive P " the skeptic will naturally ask.3 I

32 THE SPHINX.

Because Taurus was rising when the brother was born, and

Venus was his significator. But during that lapse of thirty

minutes, Taurus rose above the horizon and Venus was no longer

the significator, for Gemini, which Mercury rules was rising.

In both cases the Moon was hyleg and in almost exact quar

tile with Mars, having passed the culmination but 22' at hisbirth, yet had passed it 38' at her birth, and the wider the

orb of the aspect, especially if separating, the less evil it is.

Independent of

this consideration, let the student keep in mind

that Astrology does not mean unavoidable destiny. Once I

lived by aspects when I should have died, according to the

books. At another time an Astrologer near Boston, and another

in New Orleans, about the same date, wrote me that they did

not think I would live till September, 1890. In both cases thechances for living were very strong against me. These, and a

score of

other cases with which I have met in my practice,convince me that man has the power o

f choice, and by taking

care, when warned in advance, may escape many of

the evils

which his Horoscope indicates, and which would come upon

him if he drifted blindly, without making the least effort.Saturn in Cancer, in this lady's Horoscope, denotes danger o

fweak lungs and a delicate stomach, yet by proper care she may

retard the development of

these ailments, and her life may beprolonged beyond even three-score-and-ten. But the object of

this work is not to delineate a Nativity or write a treatise onAstrology; therefore we will proceed with the work which the

title page indicates.

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 33

(Ibe £13trologer'ſ U)abe (Decum.

HoROSCOPE OF CATHARINE H. THOMPSON.

1858, April 10,

at 6.52.01 A. M.12.00.oo M., Noonmark.

—5.07.59 No. of Hours.

Data.Sidereal time at Noon, I. I3.42Time before Noon, 5.07.59

Time past Noon, O.O.O.OO

Sidereal time at Birth, 2O.O.5.43

—Sidereal time before Noon, .47

20.04.56

34 THE SPHINX.

CHAPTER I.— RECTIFYING A NATIVITY.

Catharine H. Thompson was born in London, England, AprilIo, 1858, at 6.50 A.M., the lady wrote me, and added: “Myfather was one of those particular Englishmen who would insiston entering the hour and minute in the family Bible. He hadeight children and the minute of birth of each was so recorded.”

No doubt her father was exact in noting the time by his clockor watch, which he felt sure was right, and yet some corrections

are always necessary in rectifying, which will show a discrep

ancy. These discrepancies will be noted later in the work.The data of birth given is therefore considered as the approxi

mate time and the first step will be to make a Horoscope forthat time and then determine from inspection the planet andaspect which will come nearest to measuring to the arc of theevent. The lady gave me a list of events as follows:

Mother died Dec. 29, 1865.Brother died Aug. 16, 1874.Father died Oct. 1 1, 1877.Lady married Feb. 28, 188o."The death of the mother was the earliest and the most

important event in this lady's life, and therefore the bestfrom which to work. The Ioth house is the house of the

mother and we must discover an evil planet whose arc willmeasure, by evil aspect, to the culmination with the cusp ofthe Ioth house. But first we will find the arc of the date of the

mother's death; or in other words, the exact age of Catharinewhen she lost her mother.

1865 Dec. 29 = Date of mother's death.1858 Apr. 10 = Date of Catharine's birth. Subtract.

7 8 19 = 7 years, 8 months, 19 days.

7°43' = Arc of mother's death.

The rule for converting time into arc, is:1 year = 1° 1 month = 5' 6 days = I'*The hour and minute of these dates are not important.

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. 35

So I say: 7 years = 7°; 8 months = 40' and 19 days = 3',

added to the 40' make 43'. This rule was adopted by Com.Morrison of the English Royal Navy, late in life. He was thebest o

f

modern Astrologers and practiced the science more thansixty years.

Rectified Time.

1858 April 10,

}

Data.Sidereal time at Noon, 1.13.42.

At 6.5o A. M. Time before Noon, 5.1o.o.o.

12.oo M., Noonmark. Time past Noon, o.o.o.o.o.

5.1o No. of Hours. Sidereal time at Birth, 20.03.42.

We see at a glance that the difference in longitude betweenSaturn, the most evil o

f all the planets, and the cusp of the 4thhouse, and the arc o

f

the mother's death, is not great, and thatSaturn, to a conjunction of

that cusp will be an opposition to

the cusp of

the house of

the mother. But in consequence of

the obliquity of the ecliptic, the space must not be measured

36 THE SPHINX.

by longitude, but by R. A. [right ascension,] the measure employed by all astronomers. We therefore find Saturn's R. A.as follows:

Lat. O N. I 5 2 I* of ga in o° N. Lat. = i 12.43Long. 2 I gå 43 43' of gF in O' N. Lat. = O.46

R. A. I I 3.3 I 15' of N. Lat. in 21° ga = 0.02

The R. A. of 2 IgE 43 in O N. 15 Lat. = 1 13.3 ISaturn's R. A. being 1 13°31' it is evident that the cusp of the4th house will equal Saturn's R. A., plus the arc of the event.Hence: I 13°31' + 7°43' = 121° 14', which must be convertedinto longitude. Turning to the Tables of R. A., I look for aR. A. in the column headed “O’” for a R. A. next smaller than121° 14' and find it is 121°09' which gives 29 ga. But I have5' more of R. A. to be converted and it gives 5' of longitude.

There the longitude of the cusp of the 4th house must havebeen 29 go 5, at the lady's birth, in order to measure the arc of

her age at her mother's death.Having found the R. A. of the lower meridian, we add to it180° which gives the R. A. of the upper meridian, thus:121. 14-H 18O= 301. 14; and of course the longitude of thecusp is 29 V5 5.

The next step is to find what Sidereal time will give 29 w; 5on the cusp of the Midheaven. We have the arc, 3OI. I.4, whichmust be divided by 15, because the circle is 360° and this divided by 24, the number of hours in a day, gives a quotient of15. Therefore 15° of longitude are equal to one hour of time.

ExAMPLEs.

I 5)3OI. I.4

- 2O.O4.56

I say: I 5 is contained in 30 twice, in I no times and writeo; the remainder is 1° and I multiply it by 4 which gives 4

minutes and write the 4 under minutes. The popular rule is

to reduce the remainder to minutes and divide by I 5. Well,

60 × 1 = 60, and 6o +15 = 4, giving the same result. Then

15 is not contained in 14, and 14' remainder, which multipled

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. 37

by 4 equal 56 seconds. Or, reduce the 14' to seconds and

divide by 15: 14-H6O-- 15 = 56. Hence, Sidereal Time atCatharine's birth was 20 h. 4 m. 56 s. from which we must

deduce the time of her birth. This process is lengthy, but Iam unable to shorten it.

Annual Sidereal time at noon, on the day of her birth, wasI h. I 3 m. and 42 s

.,

and on the next day 3 m.

and 40 s. more.

The approximate time of her birth was 5 h. Io m. before noon,during which Annual Sidereal Time would gain 47 sec., andtherefore the 47 sec. must be subtracted from Annual Sidereal

Time at noon: I h. I 3 m.

42 s.— 47 sec. = I. 12.55, which I

write, and beneath it,

leaving a space, write Sidereal Time at

her birth, thus:

I. I 2.55

2O.O4.56

A number must be found to fill the space, which, added to or

subtracted from I. 12.55 will give 20.04.56. The rule is: Ifthe birth is A.M., subtract the lower from the upper, borrowing

24

hours (when needed to make the subtraction,) and the

remainder will be the number to insert in the space, and that

is what I did in this case. But if the birth is P.M., subtract theupper from the lower. In this case the remainder is 5 h. 7 m.59 s

., showing that the birth occurred 5 h.7 m. 59 s. before

noon. Therefore 5.7.59 must be subtracted from noon, or

12

hours, which leaves 6 h. 52 m. I s., showing that the true, or

rectified time of birth, was 2 minutes I second later than approxi

mate time.

The student may wonder why the longitude of

the cusp of

Ioth house was “V5 29,” by approximate time, and now, 2 m.

1 s. later it is only “29 w;

5.” There are two reasons for this:First, the 47 sec. were not subtracted from Sidereal time in theapproximate. Secondly, in Tables of Houses the Sidereal Time

is given only for about every 4 minutes and it very often happens that Sidereal Time at birth is either 2 m. too large or2 m.

too small for the Sidereal Time given in the Tables of houses;

so there will be a discrepancy of2 m. any way. In this case

38 THE SPHINx.

took a Sidereal Time larger than that at birth, for the approxi

mate Horoscope; but had I taken the one smaller, then only28° of Vy would have been on the cusp of the Ioth house.This method of rectifying, and the rules, in full, for the various aspects, which I append, are of my own invention, for themethods and rules given in the books were not clearly explained,

so that a student could work by them; besides, I did not likethem, for I think that R. A. is the only true measure of the arcsin astronomy. For simply delineating a Horoscope it rarelyhappens that a discrepancy in the time of birth of 20 or 3o

minutes will make much difference, though it is better to have

the exact time; but for computing Directions, even seconds aresometimes important.

RULES FOR RECTIFYING A NATIVITy.

1. When the hour of birth is not known, you must judge

from the general make up of the native, what sign was ascending at the time of birth. This may be quite hard for one who

is not very familiar with the descriptions which the signs andplanets produce, but is quite easy for one who has practicedAstrology for a time. In regard to this, I advise those whohave had little practice to consider well before forming a decided opinion. Remember not to jump at conclusions, becauseone is described by Leo, for he or she is not necessarily born

with that sign ascending.

2. Aries ascending with Mars in Taurus will describe one

somewhat as Libra ascending with Venus in Pisces. Leoascending with the Sun in Capricorn will describe one as ofmiddle height, slender, light hair and many of the Leo traitsof character.

3. When the hour is known, make a horoscope for theapproximate time of birth.

4. Find the Arc of the event as follows; From the year,

month and day of month, subtract the data of birth; the remainder will be the Arc of time. Convert this into degrees

and minutes by allowing one year for a degree, one month forfive minutes and six days for one minute.

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 39

5. Find the Right Ascension of the planet by which to rectify. Always work from the upper meridian except when anopposition to it is required, then bring the lower meridian to aconjunction of the planet.

6. To a Conjunction. If the planet is east of the uppermeridian or west of the lower meridian, the meridian must be

moved zodiacal direction direct and you will subtract the arc of

event from the Right Ascension of the planet and the remainderwill be the rectified R. A. of the meridian.7. But if the planet is west of the upper meridian or eastof the lower meridian, the meridian must be moved zodiacal

converse and you will add the arc of Event to the R. A. of theplanet, and the sum will be the rectified R. A. of the meridian.Having found the rectified R. A. of the meridian, by either ofthe foregoing rules, the longitude of the cusp of the Ioth housemay be found as follows:8. In the tables of R. A., in the first column, which has nolatitude, find the R. A. next smaller than the given R. A. moveyour finger to the left to the column of longitude and take thefigure or figures found there for the degree of longitude: Atthe head of the column will be the sign of the zodiac and takethe sign that says, “with north latitude.” Write this sign, andon the left write the figure or figures of longitude thus found.Then subtract the degrees and minutes of the R. A. thatare next smaller than the given R. A. from the next degreebelow; the answer in minutes will be the first term of a prob

lem in Proportion, 60 will be the second term; subtract theminutes of the next smaller R. A. already found, from thegiven R. A. and the remainder will be the third term. Theanswer of this problem can be found by proportion or in theTables of Proportionals in CHANEY’s PRIMER of ASTROLOGY ;

this answer will be the minutes of longitude to be written onthe right of the sign already found, when the degree or degrees,

with the sign and minutes, will be the longitude of the cusp ofthe Ioth house, if working from the upper meridian; if working

from the lower meridian it will be the longitude of the cusp ofthe 4th house.

4O THE SPHINx.

9. To a Sextile, Quartile or Trine. If the planet is east ofthe meridian and the M. C. is to be moved zodiacal directiondirect, add the Arc of the Event to the aspect, that is

,

to

60, 90 or

120 degrees, as the case may be, and subtract the

sum from the R.

A. of the planet; the remainder will be rectified R

.

A. of the M. C.

But when the planet is east of themeridian and the meridian is to be moved zodiacal converse,

subtract the Arc of Event from the degrees of the aspect andadd the remainder to the R

. A. of the planet; the answer willbe the rectified R. A. of the M. C., which must be converted in

both case of

this rule, into longitude for the cusp of

the IOthhouse, by rule 9.

Io. If the planet is west of the meridian and the M. C.is to

be moved zodiacal direction direct, subtract the Arc of Eventfrom the degrees o

f

the aspect and add the remainder to the

R.A.of

the planet, the sum will be the rectified R. A. of the

M. C.

But when the planet is west of the meridian andthe M. C. is to be moved zodiacal converse, add the Arc of

the Event to the degrees of the aspect and add this sum to the

R.

A.of

the planet; the answer will be the rectified R. A. of

the M. C., which must be converted, in both cases of this rule,

into longitude for the cusp of

the IOth house by rule 8.

N. B.

Remember that the circle of

the zodiac, like all circles,

contains just 360 degrees, and that when you are to subtract,according to the foregoing rules, you must always go forward in

the zodiac for the minuend, the same as when finding M.D.;

when you cannot subtract, borrow the circle. Also, when you

have added, if the sum exceeds 360 degrees, reject the circle;

that is,

subtract 360 from it.

No NEW MOON IN FEBRUARY.

A very rare astronomical feature belongs to February ; it will have no newmoon. Per contra, January and March have two each. This peculiar incidence is due to the fact that the last year of

the century is not reckoned asa leap

year, and that even in ordinary leap years the moon is new in February as in othermonths, except a

t long intervals. A moonless month has not occurred since February o

f 1866, and will not, it is said, occur again for a vastly greater space of time.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 4 I

Che 35cience of Celegtial Obilogopbp Relatingto ſºlativitieg.

FoundED ON THE TRUE AND PROGREssive Motion of THE PLANETARY BoDIES ; ExPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED witH

DIAGRAMS, IN A SERIES OF LETTERs.

By G. T. F. SMITH TO R. PRICE.

LETTER No. 1.

CHELTENHAM, November, 1852.

DEAR SIR : As regards my system, your estimate of it mustbe governed by your conviction; for imagination may be carriedaway with too much conceit of one's own discovery.

In the first place, the directions termed secondary are withme primary, and are excited to action and power by the transits.For instance, observe the Moon and every other planet whenthey form malignant aspects; then note Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mars, the latter if retrograde, since his stay is prolonged, otherwise, when direct, more evanescent. The exciting

influence or transit must be of the same nature, as the Primary

is either a square, semi-square, or opposition; and sesquisquare

to the angle of meeting in the Primary, provided the latter bemalignant; or parallel of declination the same as that in thePrimary number, if either significator or promittor from whichyou perceive the affliction operating in the horoscope becomeselectrically excited to action. But if not so ercited by theplanets, named transitors, there are no consequences from suchPrimary, for connection or excitement of benign tendency canonly operate on benign primary aspects, and demonstrate theirpower coincidentally with those aspects.

But observe, that a semi-sextile, sextile, quintile, or trine toVenus, Jupiter, Sun, or Moon in the primary, if supported andfortunately constituted, will in most cases save from any serious

42 THE SPHINX.

effect signified by malignant Primary directions, and if strong,

from any effect at all. Thus, it is necessary to observe with alynx-eye examination.The following is the natus of a friend, deceased, from which

I judged his death years prior to it, and confided the same to

living witnesses.

August 22, 1799.

6 A.M.

The subjoined are the Primary directions:

D & 3

D & 3!

Excited to action by Saturn in Aries, retrograde.

D & G)º,9. }Jupiter in Libra, direct, applying.Saturn or Jupiter will affect when as transitors they apply at

nine degrees off to the precise point, and the Moon in thePrimary will frequently give her result within seven or eight

degrees of completing the aspect. Now, you perceive there

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 43

are no benefic rays to the Moon in the Primary of a savingcharacter, and that the excitement is strong. The more power

ful the excitement the more certain the result, and in this youhave the two ponderous planets, Saturn and Jupiter, the formerretrograde, too. Now, had this Primary not have been excited,no manifestation would have occurred.

Here, also, chronic complaints can be traced to their source.

For instance, in my natus Jupiter is now, and has been for yearspast, applying to the sesquisquare of the Sun, with Mars approximating the same. Saturn by transit is square to the Sun'splace, which excites the chronic complaint, and being retrograde the excitement is more powerful. Now, every time theseplaces of Jupiter, Mars, or that of the Sun, are excited by anyplanet passing in conjunction, semi-square, Square, sesquisquare,

or opposition, as more or less continuing in this excitement, Isuffer by the complaint. But when the excitement has passed,

I am relieved, for the Primary has become passive. Then youwill also perceive Saturn is now within five degrees of a parallel

of declination of the Sun and Moon radix, i. e.,

Saturn wants

five degrees in longitude before he perfects these parallels of

Sun and Moon radix. This afflicts me when more or less excited. Here you have the true cause of all chronic complaints,

the accelerating effect of

which is purely electrical, rendered so

by exciting transits.My remark upon the Moon's directions is thus explained:

If there are no intervening angles, and the Moon applies withinthree, four, o

r

seven degrees, when powerfully excited a course

of

events coinciding with the aspect so forming becomes manifest, progressively so, until the direction is passed. A situation

is gained, and other advantages follow; or, for example, should

a trial be coming off at a given time, with the Moon incompletely applying to a benign aspect holding connection withthe event, which depended upon that aspect of the Moon, I

should say the party would triumph if no converse testimony

obtained. This is upon the principle of the loadstone, theeffect of which is observable when at a certain distance.

If every arc were to be fully complete we should have only

44 THE SPHINX.

one event for the last degree. Experience has proven that allthe other bodies operate their effects when tending or coming

within one degree, because their motion is so slow; and they

become more powerful as they pass to within thirty minutes.But excitement has all to do in that. When there are no intervening aspects, a

llthe influence attributable to the direction

begins to show, if of he Moon, even at

seven degrees, whenpowerfully excited; but not more than at one degree with eitherthe Sun o

r any other body. Why it is so may be a subject fordiscussion. Practice so determines it with me.

The foregoing horoscope is that of the President of France,radix, and to the present time. Louis Napoleon was bornApril 20, 1808, Oh. 44m. I2s. A.M., at Paris.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 45

DECLINATIONs.

H 12 S 5 G) 11 N 28h 15 S 28 2 o S 592/ 8 S 55 § 1 S 19& 11 N 7 C 7 S 51

All the progressive aspects formed I call local, to distinguishthem from those referring to the radix.

The following are the directions from which I judge thisnative's condition in 1854:

D & G) B. D ssa. G) localD & 3 R' D & to a violent star.D & H local. G) LD par. h local. G) L & B.

h ss.g. § radix, excited by Saturn in Gemini 14°, which also excites Sun'slocal place, and both Sun and Moon in the Primary directions; to whichis added Jupiter's excitement from Capricorn

Thus, you have all the train of aspects powerfully excitedby the ponderous planets. The Moon also will have passed thetrine to her radical place, and the trine of Mercury local, whenshe encounters the opposition of Mars and Sun in the radix,

this latter condition being affected by Saturn transiting Sun

local in semi-square thereto. You have here the most simple,yet the most powerful and certain operation of the planetarybodies. -

Lilly and others wonder at Ptolemy alluding to Mercurybeing elongated from the Sun, etc., by direction, and that itcannot occur even in longevity; but upon this mode it isaccounted for.

Placidus alludes to these directions and ingresses with much

delight, but lays down no system of the kind. Nor did hisviews ever impress me until I had discovered these effects, andnow his remarks corroborate me to the tittle.

In violent deaths the fixed stars concur invariably, and forsickness the sixth house connection is more forcible than any

other, and a semi-square, square, sesquisquare, or opposition

of the luminaries, for deaths in a family.

The next example to which I refer you is the horoscope ofthe author of the Prophetic Messenger.

46 The SPHINX.

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D par. b local. D & G) localG) & 3 B. D L G) B.D & 3 B. D par. H

Saturn in Taurus is exciting a semi-square to Sun and Moonlocal, and that from near the Sun radical; Uranus applying tothe same excitement. Here you have the real cause of his illness. The Moon shortly applies to the sextile of Jupiter, butthe rays mentioned are too numerous to save life. I am veryapprehensive of his death.

I shall next draw your attention to the horoscope of agentleman who accidentally shot himself:

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 47

Born

Dec. 1, 1805.

The Directions are as follows:

O par. 3 local, perfect. D & 3 B.G) par. § (3's nature) perfect. D par. 3 local, cusp 8th.O D b. § D ) B, nearly.O D H local.

Mars, retrograde in the ascendant, by transit excites byopposition to the Sun, and being near the fixed star Procyon,

denotes violence. Saturn and Uranus had just passed 30°Aries a few days previous. The Moon and Jupiter were inconjunction, but where 2 Upon the radical Mars/ The Sunalso was near a fixed star, The Eagle, and Uranus in thePrimary conjoined with the radical Saturn — sudden and remarkable.

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It is herein seen why and when transits become important,which has puzzled students and extant authors to define.

The testimonies I can unfold will, I think, much interest you,as respects this branch of study. 'Tis upon this I offer bets.When a given event is pending, it then ceases to be a prediction, and is literally cause and effect illustrated.

Yours truly,GEORGE SMITH.

“MARRIAGES MADE IN HEAVEN.”

SIR KENELM DIGBY says of his own marriage to the beautiful

Venetia whom Vandych has immortalized first in the splendor of theliving rose and then in the marble pallor of her last sleep: “In thefirst place it giveth me occasion to acknowledge, and admire thehigh and transcendent operations of the celestial bodies, which containing and moving about the universe, send their influence every

way and to all things, and who although they take not away theliberty of free agents, yet do so strongly, though at the first secretly

and insensibly, work upon their spiritual part by means of the corporeal, that they get the mastery before they be perceived; and thenit is too late to make any resistance. For from what other causecould proceed this strong knot of affection, which being tied in

tender years, before any mutual obligations could help to confirm it,

could not then be torn asunder by long absence, the austerity of

parents, other pretenders, false rumors, and other the greatest difficulties and oppositions that could come to blast the budding blossoms

of

an infant love, that hath since brought forth so fair flowers and so

mature fruit? Certainly the stars were at the least the first movers,”etc.

Private Memoirs of SIR K. DIGBY.

THE ASTROLOGIC DRAGON. 49

Cbe £13trologic Eragon.

A FEATURE of Sabaeism particularly interesting and importantto us, is it

s

vast treasury of cycle lore, which holds the key to

the mystical numbers and esoteric enigmas which have so longpuzzled the brain, and baffled the endeavors o

f antiquarian

research. So long as we are without an understanding of

thetime-periods required for the different motions o

f

the heavenly

bodies to complete their cycles, so long must the mysteries of

the prophets, the Scriptures, and mythology remain hermeticallysealed in esoteric darkness.

One of

these time-periods which ancient science gave great

prominence to, and which at the present time is of the utmostimportance to us, is what we will denominate the Dragon Cycle,

a period of

about ten thousand years, which alone is able, of

all terrestrial or

celestial things, to give solution to the mystical

numbers, ten and seven, connected with that notable dragon so

familiar to Bible readers, which through the ages, has bothmocked and menaced us with its seven heads and ten horns,—

and which cycle owes its existence to a certain phenomenon

known as

the “Moon's nodes,” or, her crossings back andforth, in a serpentine course, over the earth's path.

Burritt's “Geography of

the Heavens” tells us that “Couldwe look down perpendicularly upon the ecliptic and see the path

of

the earth and moon, we should see the latter pursuing a serpentine course, first within and then outside the path o

f

ourglobe.”

In consideration of

this smoke-trail motion of

the moon, her

north node was by the ancients called the “Dragon's Head,”

and her south node the “Dragon's Tail.”

The enormous trail and manifold coilings of

this serpent

become truly appalling when we take into consideration thefact that it wraps itself thirteen times around the earth every

year: then, in pursuit of the earth, it wraps itself around ourorbit once every year; then it gnarls itself into prodigious coils

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around us while the equinoxes are thousands of years in falling

back along the zodiac, and so on until the coilings of this hydra

headed dragon become a veritable Gordian knot which nothing

short of a Michael's sword can ever untangle or cut!But there is a certain motion of the earth and her moon which

has an influence upon the “obliquity of the ecliptic” through

the force of which the earth (and her attendant moon) vibrates

backward and forward, each oscillation requiring ten thousandyears—which ten thousand year cycle is symbolized by the tenhorns of the Scriptural Dragon, and is thus symbolized by Virgil:

“A mighty Dragon shot, of dire portent;From Jove himself the dreadful sign was sent . . .

The Serpent stretched his black jaws and crushedEight birds and their mother—she the ninth .As many birds as by the snake were slainSo many years the toils of Greece remain;

But, wait the tenth . . . .” (ten thousand years).

This serpent trail of the moon's nodes has ever been regardeda menace in the heavens, and solves the mystery of the Sabaean

tradition that “A great Dragon, an enemy of mankind, is continually watching for an opportunity to devour the sun andmoon.”

This apparent serpent in the skies was the moon-god, Sin,worshipped by Abraham in his father's house; it is the Dragonworshipped by the Chinese to this day; it is the fabled serpent

father of Alexander; and it is the allegorical father of them

whom Jesus Christ stigmatized as a generation of vipers.

The Nazarene being an adept in Sabaean astrology under

stood perfectly well the influence exerted upon the human race

at the time of their birth, by this Dragon, or the Moon's nodes.Turning to astrology we find that the Moon's nodes, orDragon's Head and Tail, have a certain power called their“exaltation ” in the two signs of Gemini and Sagittarius, sevensigns apart, which symbolized the seven heads figured by Johnthe Revelator when he wrote: “And there appeared anotherwonder in heaven, a great dragon having seven heads and tenhorns;” or, inscribed within seven signs, and ten thousand years.

THE ASTROLOGIC DRAGON. 5 I

Of these “exaltations” that of the Dragon's Tail in Sagitta

rius has ever been regarded as a virulent malefic; and, strange

to say, we of the present generation have had our lot cast in atime when this malefic has finished his ten thousand year cycle,

and now sits in his exaltation in the notable sign of Sagittarius.

Here he has great power for evil; here he will even make warwith heaven l and woe betide both heaven and earth were it not

that this dragon has a powerful opponent in one familiarly

known as Michael,-a Sabaean Water Prince who is also knownas Meptune.

On Dec. 2, 1899, in Sagittarius, the house of Neptune orMichael, will be in conjunction the Sun, Moon, Uranus, Saturn,Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Dragon's Tail; Jupiter is only

five degrees behind in Scorpio; next day, Dec. 3d, there will bean eclipse of the Sun.Now of all this host of heavenly bodies coming together inthe house of an absent lord, the dragon seems to be of the mostmalefic spirit; though some of the others will take sides withhim, yet he seems to be the chief and leader in the evil to bewrought.

The two signs of the Dragon’s “exaltation,” Gemini andSagittarius, as it were, are the two horns of a dilemma; at onehorn is congregated a host—but they are in the house of Neptune; at the other horn, in Gemini is Neptune surrounded with

the suggestions of a flood. The Dragon also holds a floodIn enace.

ANNA PHAROS.

WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF 2

If war should break out between Great Britain and the SouthAfrican Republic within two months after the adjournment of theHague Conference, it would be not only a curious but striking illustration of the truism about history repeating itself. The FrancoAustrian war for the liberation of Italy, in 1859, broke out in lessthan two months after the Russian Czar Alexander II. had inducedthe Great Powers to hold a conference in favor of peace.

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Che (Clinter $50Igtice.

Dec. 21, 1899.

8 P.M.

Washington, D.C.

At 8 P.M. on the 21st of December the central orb of oursystem will attain to his greatest southern declination, at whichtime the royal Leo ascends. Herein we find ensconced theEmpress of the Night, the robes of Azarpha drawn close abouther, her countenance wreathed in smiles in spite of the grave

influences which surround her liege in his entry upon the fourthquadrant of his kingly circuit. Unfeeling goddess! to smileupon estate so ill-conditioned ' Yet is it meet that gratitude

should be felt for the even tenor of the public mind in themidst of such complicated trade conditions; for such is indicated in the trend of the stock markets, which is but a reflex of

THE WINTER SOLSTICE. 53

the commercial gravities. The different boards will be subject

to such uncertain and various rumors that but little stability can

be expected in this part of the public economy.

The President will incline to a wise conservatism, though

none the less determined in the discharge of his official functions. This is well, for animosities will be felt in his politicalatmosphere, and an excess of prudence, or an unseemly hesitancy on his part, would but encourage the opportunities whichhis enemies seek; but he will grow in popularity before theclose of December.

The adverse influences centering upon eleventh house affairspoint to rashness and verbosity in congressional debate, and

a subversive tendency to legislative methods, though modifying

elements in the auxiliary quarterly figures may lessen this to adegree. Heavy appropriations in various directions will tax thenational exchequer, and the first week, as well as the latter half

of January, will witness some precipitant methods in law-making

assemblies. The personnel of the Navy will be well lookedafter, though the War Board will incur invidious commentrelative to its procedures. The outlook is rather ominous foreducational and amusement matters in general, and especially tobuildings devoted to these purposes. Dangers in this respect

will eventuate near the middle of January. The public health

for the quarter will not be good.

At Denver, Virgo ascends. Incendiarism will be rampant inthe Middle West, and official speculations will come to the fore.Mining stocks will prove very erratic; Grangers more reliable.

A prominent western theater will be destroyed by fire. Thecity in which this occurs may be logically ascribed to Capricorn.

In the West and South the winter will prove unusually severe,

and distempers coincident with damp atmospheres will beprevalent.

The Military Bureau at Manilla will commit some egregious

blunders and come under criticism in January. Official censorship will approach the limit.Dec. 22, 1 a.m.— At London the governing factions will bepopular. Problems in revenue will be difficult of solution,

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though Parliamentary measures will meet with approval. Railroad accidents are probable in the early half of January, as wellas automobilic casualties. The ruler of the ascendant and eighthin the fourth will increase the death-rate.

At St. Petersburg some strange deaths will occur. Accidentsto the Russian Navy are likely. The Government will incurheavy expenditures. The point of ingress and Mars conjoined

with the ascendant at 90° east, foreshows grave internal conditions for East Indian districts, and covert acts on the part ofnatives may be expected.

HAZELRIGG.

“WHAT I THINK OF THE DEVIL.”

MARK Twain, in his quality of an imp of mischief, has come tothe aid of that supernatural or mythical being who is sometimeseuphemistically spoken of as His Satanic Majesty, but is more commonly described as the devil. “I have no special regard for Satan,”says Mark, in the article “Concerning the Jew,” in “Harper's,”

“but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. Itmay even be that I lean a little bit his way on account of his nothaving a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him and saythe most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we haverendered the verdict. To my mind this is irregular. It is unEnglish ; it is un-American ; it is French. Without this precedentDreyfus could not have been condemned. Of course, Satan hassome kind of a case, it goes without saying. It may be a poor one,but that is nothing; that can be said about any of us.”

He promises that as soon as he can get at the facts and find animpolitic publisher he will undertake the rehabilitation of the devil.“A person,” he adds, wickedly, “who has for untold centuries maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the

human race and political head of the whole of it must be granted

possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.”MARK Twa IN.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, FEBRUARY. 55

16irtboap Information amo Daily. Howice forjebruary.

Babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and indeed ifthey could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babiesat particular epochs. “A'omola.”— GEORGE ELIOT.

I. Thursday. Today is generally favorable.Your anniversary seems to favor you somewhat and with careon your part, especially in financial matters, the year should findyou in better circumstances at its close, but do not enlarge youraffairs too freely.

2. Friday. It is a good day to visit friends, and seek amusement, avoid controversy.

Both good and evil is indicated during your coming year,and in social and home matters, progress will be made. Someunfavorable changes are spoken of, and care should be observedalso in writings and promises.

3. Saturday. Look sharp today, and guard your health.The present year will be a trying one in many ways. Sickness is indicated, and elderly persons should look well to theirhealth. Your wishes will be thwarted and some strong disappointments will come to you, but those employed may receivefavors.

4. Sunday. It is an excellent day. Use such in accordance with your belief.You have a favorable anniversary, and your affairs in generalwill improve. Much activity is denoted, some changes, andjourneys are in order. Force all matters, enlarge your affairs,and use every advantage. Remember the unfortunate.

5. Monday. In the main it is favorable, but be guarded insocial affairs.

The coming year will improve your affairs but slightly. Itwill be advisable for you to be guarded in al

l

changes, makingbut few, and careful in domestic affairs. Steadiness is denoted,

and you will benefit through elderly persons.

6. Tuesday. It is an unfavorable day, so look sharp.

Your coming year is an unfavorable one, and there will be

much to cause you anxiety. Sickness within your circle, oppo

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sition to your desires, and unpleasantness at home. Do not oppose superiors, or encourage opposition, and guard against fire,robbery and accident.

7. Wednesday. Today is general good. Visit, ask favorsand seek amusement.

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Your present year promises fairly well, and matters in general should improve as it advances. Some social and homechanges are in order, and there is likely to be additions to theSame.

8. Thursday. It is an evil day in general.Your anniversary portends much misfortune unless thegreatest care is observed. Sickness, probable bereavement,

financial difficulties, and severe disappointments will come.Guard well all matters, and when in doubt, seek the Astrologer's timely advice.

9. Friday. You may journey with care, yet be guarded insocial matters.

Your anniversary cannot be considered favorable. Domesticunpleasantness is indicated, litigation, changes, and probable

sickness as well. Be guarded in all expressions, and carefulof accidents, and do not oppose superior conditions.

IO. Saturday. It is an evil day.Much misfortune will be in evidence during your comingyear, and the greatest care is urged in all matters. Sickness,opposition to your affairs, financial losses, and unfavorablechanges. Guard well your health, and make no additions toyour affairs.

II. Sunday. It is not good for matters of importance.Your coming year is a poor one, and unfavorable mattersare in evidence. Look well to all financial affairs, guard yourspeech, and do not invite any domestic disputes. It is a timefor close observation.

12. Monday. Visit your friends, seek amusement, but donot travel or write.

Many anxieties will be in evidence as the year is passing.Some unfavorable changes are spoken of, trouble through writings, agreements, promises and litigous matters. Be guardedat all times, and make no additions to your affairs.

13. Tuesday. Look sharp to controversy, and remain inactive.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, FEBRUARY. 57

Your anniversary cannot be considered favorable for you,and there will be much misfortune occurring as the year passes.Look out for law, disputes, accidents, and guard against robbery. If a property owner, have the same insured. Seek theastrologer's advice.

I4. Wednesday. It is an evil day.Your coming year is fraught with trials, and you will need tobe guarded in all ways. Sickness, financial losses, setbacks,and opposition to your general affairs. Make no additions,and look sharp to what you have.

15. Thursday. It is not a good day, so avoid matters ofimportance.

Your coming year is unfavorable. There may be somefavors shown you, and with care on your part, some benefitmay be derived, but look well to changes, and be careful offinancial outlay.

16. Friday. It is a quiet day; with care you may venture.Your anniversary is not an important one, and your affairswill pass along similar to your past year, but be guarded inoutlay, and do not add too freely to your affairs.

17. Saturday. It is an evil day.You have an unfortunate year before you, and there will bemuch that will cause you sorrow in your circle. Look wellto home matters, be guarded in friendships, and careful ofexpense, sickness, possibly bereavement, and some unpleasantnotoriety.

I8. Sunday. It is somewhat favorable. Rest.Both good and evil marks the promises of your coming year,and it is not unlikely that sorrow may enter your domain. Beguarded in business matters, in your position, and from accidents and fire. You will make some favorable change, andmay journey.

19. Monday. Today is rather favorable.You are somewhat favored this coming year of life, and withcare to all affairs, the year should redound to your advantage.Force a

ll

matters fully; make additions and be alert for allopportunities.

20. Tuesday. It is an excellent day.You have cause for congratulations in the promises of

thecoming year; though you will need to guard financial outlay.

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Much activity is shown, and you will change, and add to youraffairs. Remember that time flies, and the good will not last.

21. Wednesday. Be guarded today in all matters.

Care will be needed in this year's progress, and it will bewell for you to let well enough alone. Make no changes ofimportance, and do not seek financial risks. Guard your health.

22. Thursday. It is not good, so avoid all important matters.

You are not favored this coming year, and it will be full ofanxieties. Look sharp to accidents, fire, and avoid law andopposition. Some notoriety is indicated, and possible danger

to your person.

23. Friday. It is generally good in all

matters. You canchange, journey, and visit.Your anniversary is somewhat favorable, and matters shouldimprove with you a

s the year advances. Some additions to

your home circle, social advancement, and changes of a pleasant nature. Be guarded in writings however.

24. Saturday. Look sharp today, and guard your health.Your anniversary is unfavorable, and misfortunes will occur

as the year is passing. Look to your health, and those about

you.

25. Sunday. It is rather favorable. Rest.With care in all matters a

s the year is passing, you mayimprove matters somewhat. It will be to your advantage toavoid too much pleasure, so be cautious in the choice o

f yourfriends. Some domestic unpleasantness is spoken of.

26. Monday. It is good for general matters.Matters will be somewhat favorable for you this coming year,though it will not be very eventful. Some agreeable changesand considerable mental activity is indicated.

27. Tuesday. It is an excellent day for all purposes.Your anniversary is a favorable one, and matters will improvewith you as the year is passing. There is considerable activity,additions to your affairs, and journeys.

28. Wednesday. Look sharp; do not travel, or dispute.

Your anniversary is not over favorable. Be guarded in lawmatters, accidents, fire, and look to your health.

ASTOR.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 59

(Ibe Elmerican (5rammar of Figtrology.

CHAPTER XII. Continued. — THE ASPECTS OF THE MOONCoNTINUED.

The Moon in good aspect to MarsMakes the native courageous, brave, daring, resolute, firmand successful in dealing with others. In a female chart,

it shows good health, a strong constitution and muchactivity.

The Moon in conjunction or good aspect to Jupiter.

This is one of the best aspects that can occur for success inlife and the acquisition of wealth; it also denotes success

in marriage and a good wife; in a woman's nativity, good

health and prosperity.

The Moon afflicting Jupiter.

It is very unfortunate; the native squanders his wealth,comes to poverty, and should never speculate or engage

in risky adventures.

The Moon in conjunction or afflicted by Saturn.The native is very poor or soon becomes so; very careless,

and allows himself to be robbed, chiefly by false friends;

he is fretful and suspicious, fails in business and has a hard

time through life.The Moon in good aspect to Saturn

Shows the native to be very patient and persevering, and

successful in the acquisition of wealth; with a female itdenotes health, prudence and economy.

The Moon in conjunction or evil aspect to Herschel.This has much effect on the married life, and will lead thenative, unless careful, into separation. To a female itshows the husband to be unfaithful and fond of married

women. It also denotes much traveling and many changesof residence.

The Moon in good aspect to HerschelOften leads to illicit connections after marriage, but not

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often to separation; the native will be given to the study

of astrology.

The Moon Sertile or Trine with Weptune

Induces traveling, makes one long for changes, and to leavesuddenly for foreign parts.

THE ASPECTS OF MERCURY.

Mercury in conjunction or in any aspect to Venus

Gives a merry and cheerful mind, fondness for music, singing, poetry and all elegant arts and sciences.

Mercury in conjunction with the Sun

Makes an ambitious, studious man, quick at figures, ofgood business abilities and learning with ease.

Mercury in conjunction or afflicted by Mars

Makes the native quick in wit, sarcastic, quarrelsome,

addicted to falsehood, ambitious, possessing good judgment, generally very clever at any handicraft, a good workman, but unsettled and discontented.

Mercury in good aspect to Mars

Makes an accurate mathematician, possessing splendid

mental abilities, very clever at engineering or chemistry, orany occupation requiring dexterity of hand and sharpness

of wit; the native is active, hating laziness, and continuallyscheming or making something.

Mercury in conjunction or good aspect to jupiter

Denotes good and sound judgment, success in literature, afree, generous, steadfast disposition; it also inclines to gen

eral success in life, and helps the native out of trouble.Mercury afflicting jupiter

Shows poor judgment, and the native sees things in thewrong light.

Mercury in conjunction or afflicted by SaturnBad temper, bitter, often deceitful, and not trustworthy.

Mercury in good aspect to Saturn

Makes one steady in character and behavior, careful, persevering, thoughtful and contemplative, fond of science,

and generally of good judgment.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 6 I

Mercury in conjunction with HerschelIf this occurs in the ascendant, third or ninth houses, itmakes the native a great scholar, excelling in arts or literature, fond of the occult sciences and eccentric in

behavior.

Mercury in evil aspect to Herschel

Produces a bitter, sarcastic turn of mind, very fond of finding fault with others, unsuccessful in literary pursuits, andseverely criticized by the press or the public.

Mercury in good aspect to HerschelGives an original, studious turn of mind, fond of curiositiesand successful in literature.

Mercury in evil aspect to Neptune

Causes hysteria, nervousness, imaginative complaints in thehead; makes one shrewd, and a clever deceiver or pretender.

Mercury in good aspect to Neptune

Makes one intuitive, ingenious, of good judgment, quick,sensitive, practical, and a good reader of human nature.

[To be continued.]

THE FIRST Moon of THE YEAR, Monday, JANUARy 1, 1900.*

I had a dream of skies that would not clear,They were so thick with doubt, so pale with fear:And yet they held the first moon of the year.

She seemed a moon that easily were spannedIn the small compass of a woman's hand:Slim as the top bud of a lily wand.

White but not bright. So young a moon was she,She had no skill of shining; stumblinglyShe went as though her heart on earth might be.

Like some girl's ghost she went with heavy cheer,Treading a pathway neither known, nor dear:But one step at a time her lamp made clearSo young, so sad, the first moon of the year.

NorA HoPPER, “WESTMINSTER GAzETTE.”* Much afflicted in her debility Capricorn in conjunction with Mars exalted in the same sign.

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fºoteg ano Querieg.

It was an old tradition that in the accomplishment of anygreat and good work involving the more abstruse and reconditeknowledges, the workmen would be beset by the powers of therealms of darkness, with their frights, and horrors, and scares.

As against these, the master workman would protect his workby the display of the seal of Solomon, the wise man, and theking. But even here, he had to summon up an amazing amountof resisting force; nor could he do this unless by the assistance

of the unseen powers of light, of truth, and of goodness. Asencouragement to the failing power and courage of the masterworkman, on whom the whole charge rested, a voice, wouldcome, in terms, like the following which were given to HasanEl Basrah in his terrible trials:“I disposed thine affair at the time when thou wast in thy mother's womb,And inclined her heart to thee so that she fostered thee in her bosom :

We will suffice thee in matters that occasion thee anxiety and sorrow;So, submit to us, and arise: we will aid thee in thy enterprise.”

[We ask that all

those earnest souls both at home and abroad, who havethrough their correspondence been so much to u

s in this arduous work,

will often call upon these “unseen powers of light, of truth, and of good

ness,” to guide and inspire “the master workman" with fresh courage,fortitude and wisdom to advance and protect this good work. —ED.]

MR. GEORGE WILDE writes as follows:– “A horoscope by

one of

the Raphaels written in April 1863 has come intoour possession, and we take pleasure in sending it for the bene

fit

of

the readers of THE SPHINx. We have added the planet

Neptune, otherwise it appears exactly as it was received from

the author. It will be observed that some stress is laid uponSaturn's meridian position and that the cases of Napoleon I

and III are instanced as evidence of a rise and a fall in life.Of course the author was unaware that the time was wrongly

taken in the case of Napoleon I and that Saturn was not in themid-heaven a

t

all. This planet had calminated, but Napoleon

III certainly had Saturn in the mid-heaven.

NOTES AND QUERIES. 63

In the present horoscope Raphael's prediction of discreditwas verified, for the native followed reckless courses at college

and neglected his studies, though his abilities were superior.

The young man never rose even with the aid of Venus trine

to the mid-heaven mundane, and Jupiter conjunction with thelower meridian. He is still living, but his fortunes are uncertain.”

This interesting horoscope will be given in our next.— ED.

ASMOTHIEL observes:—We have been treated to two clever

articles on the ruling sign of the United States. Our friend,

Mr. Tilley, made out a good case for the sign Virgo, andMr. Hazelrigg has, to some extent wiped Mr. Tilley's slate.Is it not probable that both signs have a certain rule? Onething strikes us and that is

,

the names under which we express the United States personified, and the government of

the States, Brother Jonathan and Uncle Sam and there is

something in these names. Aries rules England, then Geminirules the 3d brothers, and Virgo rules 6th, uncles. This coupled

with the fact that the names were apparently given with no idea

as to why they were so named, seems to our way of thinking,

to not only point out that two signs have power over theStates, but also that (although things may look like chance)the underlying base o

f all is that the heavens do rule.

A student writes: — I should esteem it a favor if the editor,

or any reader of your magazine will furnish me with the birth

data of

the following persons: Jay Gould, Andrew JacksonDavis, and Anthony Comstock. The key to notoriety o

r

fame

is an interesting quest, and with that end in view I am studyingthe natii o

f prominent persons in different walks of life.[It is said that Jay Gould gave the date of his birth to a lady astrologerseveral years before his death as May 27, 1836, about an hour after sunrise, in Delaware Co., New York. The horoscope is certainly indicative o

f

the man.Andrew Jackson Davis, the spiritualist and seer, was born Aug. I I,

1826, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

In his Magic Staff he says, “near the close

ofa sultry day.”Anthony Comstock, the regulator of

morals in New York of everybodybut himself, was born March 9,

1844. A number of years ago a lady overheard him remark on a street car that he was of

such an age that day at

sunrise.]

64 THE SPHINX.

Eðitorial.

Owing to the recent illness of the editor, Volume II. willcommence with the February number, and subscribers willreceive an extra number at the end of the year.

THE Market Forecasts which have hitherto appeared in thisMagazine will be discontinued.

We feel we should be wanting in thoughtful appreciation, didwe commence our second volume without first thanking thelittle band of devoted missionaries, who has come forward so

unselfishly, to help forward the good work aimed at in the publication of THE SPHINx. Each has nobly given of his and herbest to help place this ancient and honorable science where it

so justly belongs, and a seed has been sown that will never die.

We desire to say that we cannot insert letters of a personalnature, as we feel the contract with our subscribers requires us

to publish Astrology pure and simple, and to refrain from allpersonalities. We are working solely for the good of Humanity and are only too glad when we can relieve an anxious mind.

Our idea is not to exalt the qualities of the head above thoseof the heart, but to let both grow together, for only thus can

we develop the highest wisdom and accomplish the greatest

good.

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RENAN may, therefore, well conclude, “This great Hou orsphinx appears thus the most ancient idol in the world.” If itbe to “Horus in the Horizon,” or rising sun, the temple was,

like Stonehenge, dedicated to the sun, the visible producer ofearthly things, and the best representative of the Unseen Sun,

the First One, the benevolent Creator. “When Cheops,” asRenan reports, “4500 years before Jesus Christ, repaired it,”

we may conclude indeed that the sphinx temple is the oldestexisting place of worship.

How came the winged sphinx of Greece P It seems to haveoriginated from the Akr, or hawk-headed Egyptian sphinx,

which had wings. Rawlinson concludes the Greek winged one

to be partly Egyptian and partly Phoenician.Rougé detects on an Edfou inscription a singular reference

to the sphinx. In the story of Horus, on that temple, the god

is said to have taken the shape of a human-headed lion togain advantage over his enemy, Typhon. Certainly, Horuswas so adored in Leontopolites. He is the real sphinx. Thataccounts, too, for the lion figure being sometimes seen on eachside of Isis, and even in her hand. It was her child.Pierret affirms that it was “particularly consecrated to therepresentation of a king,” who was the image of Horus on earth.The Great Sphinx looks to the east; where Horus has a right

to expect the re-appearance of his deceased father, and where

the departed king will equally appear at his resurrection.65

66 THE SPHINX.

While to the north of the great image a temple to Isis wasanciently raised, one to Osiris existed to the south.Once the image may have had a crown. Miss Edwards calls

attention to Vedder's picture of the Secret of the Sphinx, showing an Egyptian putting his ear to the stone lips. “Fellah andsphinx,” says she, “are alone together in the desert. It isnight, and the stars are shining. Has he chosen the right hour?What does he seek to know?”

But it is highly probable that the sphinx worship is but avariety of the solar one, and intimately with king worship;“intended,” says Mr. W. R. Cooper, “to represent the king

under the form of the Egyptian deity, Ra Harmachus.”

(Concluded.)

A TEXT for the astrologic student. Louis XIV. writing to his ambassador Cominges at the Court of Charles II. dated 22 Feb. 1663: “Vous nedevez point apprehender en semblables rencontres de vous écarter trop de

votre sujet en me disant toujours vos sentiments sur Quelque affaire gue cesoit, car outre que j'en ferai beaucoup de cas, rien de ce qui se passe dansle monde, h'est hors de la portée et de la politique d'un bon Ambassadeur.”Do not be afraid of wandering too far from your subject in telling me your

sentiments about anything which may come under your notice. There isnothing in the whole world which does not come under the cognizance, andfall within the sphere of an ambassador (of Urania). Don't miss themoral of the above, gentle reader, but help the good cause by sending toTHE SPHINX anything interesting you may come across in book, magazine

or newspaper. Great truths often lie half revealed like rough diamonds infacts and incidents which the average man passes with a lack lustre eye.

Nature the great mother said Goethe is always whispering her secrets to

her children; but alas ! how stupid we are mostly as deaf and indifferent

as Newton's dog to the significance of that falling apple which revolutionized human thought and revealed to a master mind the mysterious Law

which binds a myriad worlds.

BRITANNIA's STAR. 67

$3ritannia'ſ $5tar.

It seems to be universally accepted as an axiom that England is astrologically ruled by the sign Aries and planet Mars.This, in a limited degree may be true, but basically considered,

a nation of Britain's permanence, length of days, unboundedempire, dominion o'er the sea, and belligerent success, is certainly under the influence of a fixed star instead of a minorplanet of circumscribed orbit like Mars. In fact, as we shallin a future article show, Mars and a

llthe planets derive their

nature from, and are under the influence of

their respective

fixed stars.

In taking note of

certain prominent features for the purpose

of fixing upon a nativity we would ask, “Whence cometh the

exultation of long standing that “ Britannia rules the wave l’”

This power savors of Neptune rather than of Mars, and wasobtained in very ancient times when Britain bore the name ofAlbion.

According to account, this kingdom was established by oneAlbion, a son o

f Neptune, who introduced astrology and ship

building: and we propose to show that this Albion or Neptunianperiod dates back to a configuration o

f

6000 years ago; or, to

the time when the vernal equinox was at that point of

the

heavens marked by the stars Bellatrix in Orion, and Aldebaron

in the Bull.

With the vernal sun in Orion,--which belongs to both

Gemini and Taurus, the earth and autumnal equinox (both of

which are of great importance in Sabaism) would, of course, be

in the overlapping of

the two opposite signs, Sagittarius andScorpio. Sagittarius is the house o

f Neptune and Scorpio thenight house o

f

Mars.Now let u

s

bear in mind this configuration of

the sun, in

Orion, being under influence of

two fixed stars while the earth

was under the planets Neptune and Mars.Orion's sire was Neptune, and we have just seen that Albion,

68 THE SPHINX.

the founder of Britain, was the son of Neptune:—from which

influence the nation gets her power to excel in ship building, andto rule the sea.

But concerning her martial nature, in the first place the starBellatrix in Orion, is called by the ancient poets, “The martialstar,” and derives it

sname from it

s belligerent nature: and the

star Aldebaron is described as “The Bull's eye, a violent star

of

the nature of

Mars which, when in conjunction with Saturn,Mars, or either of the luminaries, threatens death.”

That Britain has her nativity from this configuration weassert for the following reasons:— first: her coat-of-arms, theLion and Unicorn, is a figure in memorial of the Unicorn in

Gemini, and the Lion's head in the hand of Orion.

(The constellation of the Unicorn supposed to be of moderndate, is

,

instead a recovery, for the ancient astrologers had one

in the identical place.)

Secondly:—The characteristic cognomen of “John Bull”

takes its origin from the zodiacal Bull which holds the starAldebaron.— In which connection let us note a few points of

similarity between this nation and Spain, which is said to be

ruled by Sagittarius; i. e. by Neptune, or

the opposite stars

Bellatrix and Aldebaron: Spain, in her bull fights holdsmemorial o

f

the constellation of Orion exasperating the Bull:

Great Britain holds the same memorial in a milder form, in the

name of “John Bull.” Both nations have had a long and

bloody martial career; both have acquired almost boundlessempire; both have had dominion upon the sea; both were fired

with the same religious zeal in the time of Philip of Spain and

Bloody Mary of England; etc. No doubt these two nationshad about the same nativity, and there can be little doubt that

the setting stars of

the one will be followed presently by thoseof the other.Thirdly:— In the days of

Britain's infancy she had anastrologer known as the Wizard Merlin, whom we suspect to

be identical with the Albion who introduced astrology; and,

whose prophecies bear internal evidence of having been uttered

before the ox or

Bull came into zodiacal regency, which

BRITANNIA’s STAR. 69

coming ox was to him a future event, but which is now 6,000

years in the past.

Now what to us is the pith of his prophecies is what he pre

dicts in relation to the Virgin Queen; that is,

the sign Virgo,

through which both the earth and the autumnal equinox have,

for the past 2,

IOO years been passing. This Virgo is just nowgiving up her regency to the Lion, through which the earth, at

the vernal equinox, will be passing for the 2,100 years to come.The “Virgin Queen is come and gone" and the things heprophesies o

f

are now due. The resurrecting Neptune, Lord

of

the Commonwealth of Israel, is he

who will “pay the wages

of

the dull people.” The following is the portion of Merlin'sprophecy alluded to : *—

MERLIN. “When the wages of

the dull people come to be paid, which

will come to pass after the reign ofa Virgin Queen, then an

end is at

hand.”

SISTER. “I demand of my brother, after the wages of

the dull people

come to be paid, who will be ordained to rule 2 Will churchmen share 2"

MERLIN. “Churchmen will not share; neither will bards, poets, andharpers b

e in esteem : but I will not have thee openly publish that thereshall be an ox born. . . . The wages will be paid when a Virgin Queen

is come and gone.”

SISTER. “And who shall reign after that * *

MERLIN. “A powerful army will come with a strong bandand then Paradise.”

SISTER. “What kind of ruler will then be7"MERLIN. “I do tell thee in all sobriety that there shall be no otherruler forever after.”

Now if we will turn from this prediction to the Apocryphal

book of Hermas, we will see this same prophecy in another

form, and from another source. Hermas sees the Whale (fromwhich constellation the sun is now passing into Aquarius) thesight o

f

which fills him with terror. Presently he

meets the

Virgin (of the zodiac) who begins thus to prophesy: —

“This beast is the figure of the trial about to come. . . . Theblack color which thou sawest denotes the world in which y

e

dwell: the

fiery and bloody color denotes that this age must be destroyed by

blood

* Another famous prediction by

Merlin will appear in our next.- Ed.

7o THE SPHINX.

and fire . . . the white color denotes the time of the world whichis to come . . . here ye have the figure of the great tribulation that

is about to come which if you please shall be nothing to you. Keeptherefore in mind the things I have said unto you.”

When this prophecy was uttered the regency of the Whaleand sign of the Fishes was a future event; now, we havenothing left of the monster save it

s

death contortion and the

end of

the prophecy is due.ANNA PHAROS.

IT appears they are at length going to reform the Calendar in Russia,where they are now some twelve days out o

f

the reckoning of

the rest of

the civilized world. In that autocratic land no doubt the change will be

effected smoothly, without any resistance to the imperial ukase. One wonders how so drastic a change, and that, too, a papistical notion, was ever

carried in so conservative a country as England. Great we know was theheartburning in some quarters and the mobs rioted up and down the land

in a truly spirited and John Bullish temper to show their indignation at

being robbed of

eleven days out of eternity | Not everyone knows that we

owe the change in a large measure to the Lord Chesterfield who wrote the

celebrated letters to his son, which Dr. Johnson defined as teaching the

morals ofa pimp and the manners ofa dancing master. In that case the

moral intention miscarried, for the son in every way was a failure, but this

was an emphatic success. With the supreme worldly wisdom of which hewas in many points the master, Lord Chesterfield, who introduced the

reform into England, decided to omit from his speech the “law, jargon andastronomical calculations" pertinent to the subject, and to do better than

to speak to the purpose by pleasing his audience instead of instructing

them. “This succeeded,” he remarks with justifiable complacency, “andever will succeed; they thought I informed them because I pleased, andmany o

f

them said I had made the whole very clear to them when Godknows I had not even attempted it.”

CHILDREN : THEIR SEX AND THEIR LONGEVITY. 7 I

Cbilören : Cheir 35er ano their longevity.

HINDU religion is very particular as regards children. If aman does not beget a son, he will not be able to cross a hell

called Put, and his spirit will wander in it for a series of centuries. Fourteen different kinds of children were recognized

and countenanced by turns in the past ages. Hindu society

now finds place for only two of them: the legitimate and theadopted son.Though various laws obtain in various nations in regard toprogeny, all are a unit as to their importance in the domesticeconomy. Hence, that which may shed light upon a problem

so seriously involved must prove indeed a blessing to civilization. Can astrology safely predict the possession, or nonpossession of children, and determine their sex? Can astrology

help us in knowing the exact length of the lives of our children,

and suggest remedies by which their longevity and good

health may be insured? Can astrology tell beforehand what

measures to adopt by which we can change the sex of ourchildren, and produce desired results?

These are very important and far-reaching questions, and

solutions to them cannot be uninteresting or unprofitable. Thepossession of children, their longevity, their health, and their

future prosperity, should signify everything to parents, and Iintend dealing in my letters to THE SPHINx fully upon this allabsorbing topic.

Astrology is a science through the aid of which one maypredict the whole history of man, as indicated in the combina

tion of the planets at the time of birth. There are twelvezodiacal signs, or houses as they are called, allotted to theseven principal planets: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,

Venus and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune have not been given

Separate houses, nor have Rahu” and Kethu any signs namedspecially for them. These twelve signs signify the variousdepartments of conveniences and troubles with which man isConcerned in this world.

7 2 THE SPHINX.

The indication of children is always consulted with reference

to the fifth house and the planet Jupiter. This house also signifies the intelligence of the native. The longevity of childrenis divided into three Aristas, or misfortunes; and if they pass

these three the astrologer may then proceed to calculate the

term of life. These are Balarista, or Infantile Misfortune,

when children die before they are twelve years old; Madhyarista, or Boyhood Misfortune, when children die between twelve

and twenty years of age; and Yogarista, or Youthful Misfortune, when death occurs between the age of twenty and thirty

two. Then begins Alpayoo, short life, from thirty-two to fifty

years; Madhyayoo, middle life, between fifty and eighty years;

and Poornayoo, or long life, between eighty and one hundred andtwenty years. Then comes Aparamithayoordaya, or unlimited

terms of life, which are the results of past or present goodÆarma, and which may be secured by yougic or other Shastraicobservances as recommended in the Hindu works. I shall lateron in this article say something about the importance of meas

ured breathing in prolonging life.Combinations of planets are given in the astrological works for

all these yogas. In the Sanskrit language the word yoga meanscombination, or conjunction of planets, and this must be carefully borne in mind.

Children are subject to three kinds of malefic influences, (1)Balarisſa, (2) Balagrapha, and (3) the sins of the parents whobeget them.

In the treatment of Balarista, or infantile death, the positions

of Chandra (Moon) and of the evil planets have much to do.Jupiter and Venus (Gurn and Sºukra), full moon, and wellassociated Buda (Mercury), are considered benefic or auspiciousplanets; the Sun, Mars, Saturn (Rani, Kuja, S'ani), weakmoon, and badly associated Buda, are considered as evil planets, or malefics. There are two more symbols, classified as evilplanets, which are taken into consideration in the Hindu system

of astrology; namely, Rahu and Aethu, or Dragon's Head andDragon's Tail.Evil planets occupying the birth sign shorten the term of life,

CHILDREN : THEIR SEX AND THEIR LONGEVITY. 73

while good planets prolong it. During the time of pregnancy

the seven principal planets govern the foetus, each in its turn,

and their strength or

weakness during that period determines its

growth or expulsion. I shall shortly enter more fully into these

details, the treatment of

which would prove confusing at

this

time if given in extenso.

A consideration of

the pre-natal influences is necessary for a

correct understanding of

the difficult question of

the extent of

the lives of children, and it is not easy to fix correctly the life

span before the twelfth year. This fact is especially renderedcomplex by the Karma, the acts o

f

the parents, or

of guardians,

during their infancy. Puida is the Sanskrit equivalent forfoetus, and during the gestative processes all the planets give

their respective terms of

life. Each period thus given by a

planet is called Graha (planet) datta (given) Puida (foetus)Ayoordaya (life). It means the length of life given to the foetus

by

each of

the planets throughout the pre-natal period.

The planet Venus (S'ukra) governs copulation and the period

of conception, and rules the foetus during the first month of

pregnancy; Mars (Kuja) rules the second month, and his position and strength indicate the foetal development in that month;

Jupiter (Gurn) governs during the third month, and the growth

or decay of

the Puida depends upon his position and association; the Sun (Rami) rules during the fourth month, and hiscondition determines the development a

t

this period. We have

the Moon (Chaudra) as ruler during the fifth month, and herstrength o

r

weakness marks the growth during that time;

Saturn governs during the sixth month; Mercury the seventhmonth, when consciousness enters the brain o

f

the child. This

consciousness is technically called Guanandriya, which I shallexplain later on. The lord o

f

the sign in which the impregna

tion took place governs the eighth month, and from this arbiter

do

we judge the conditionary progress for that month. In the

ninth month the Moon bears rule, and the tenth has the Sun as

its lord, when the generality of

children see the sunlight for thefirst time.

A few combinations may be

noticed here in connection with

74 THE SPHINX.

misfortunes incidental to the period of gestation, as they will beof great importance in the history and development of thefoetus, inasmuch as the health or sickness of the mother has avery essential bearing on miscarriage, or a safe delivery. Thecombinations which have to be looked for in determining these

points may be based on three different data, and they are, (1)the birth time of the female and the conjunctions of planets

obtaining at that time; (2) the times of copulation and conception, with their planetary positions; and (3) the time atwhich a question may be put with reference to the particular

woman about whose pregnancy the results have to be determined. The best would be the time of the copulative act andconception, if that be possible, with the combination of planets

therein marked; but the other two data are not in any way

behind it in point of significance.

Other data which is frequently noted and consulted is the

time of obtaining the age of the female, and the combinationof planets in operation at that time. Great value is attached to

this time and the coincident planetary conjunctions. We may

therefore take any of these data which we find most convenient

and available, and the calculations based upon it will be as certain as those based upon the time of birth. There is a markedchange in the mental and physical condition of the female connected with this development of the body, and this has been

noted by the ancients as furnishing a definite data upon whichfuture calculations may be safely based.

-

When combinations are given for conception and childbirth,

they apply only to those women who have potency in them,

who are physically capable of bearing children, and not old

and decrepit females. All subsequent calculations withoutascertaining beforehand by horoscopic consultations the mental

and physical conditions of the parties to be conjoined, will be ofno avail. The conjunction of planets which I shall give hereafter will of course apply to parties capable in sex function, andwho are not otherwise disqualified.

As the question is a very important one, I may be excused tosome extent if I deal with it at considerable length, that the

CHILDREN : THEIR SEX AND THEIR LONGEVITY. 75

readers of this article might see how exhaustively the question

has been treated of in the ancient astrological works found inIndia, and how many causes will have to be taken into consider

ation before one can determine such important questions as the

foetal development, its sex, its length of life, and its future

material, moral, and spiritual prospects. The series of articleswhich I intend contributing to THE SPHINx o

n

this important

subject will, I trust, be found interesting and instructive, and willmaterially conduce to that happiness o

f

mankind which is thegrand aim o

f

all knowledge when rightly understood and

explained.B. SURYANARAIN Row.

We must say that the unfortunate year 1900 is being mostScurvily treated by the scientists and people in authority. First

of

all it is told that it is not the first year of the new century.

That is comparatively just; unless the first year of our Lordwas labeled O, it seems moderately plain that 1901 must bethe first year of a century. But now it is further explained

that it is not even a leap year. The Daily News most scientifically and lucidly explains that in order to dispose o

f

that

troublesome fraction ofa day in each year, one of the rules is

that any year ending in two noughts, must have the noughts

cut off, before it is divided in the ordinary manner. Now 4

into 19 wont go

exactly. But this is an outrage not only upon

the year so rapidly approaching, but also upon the British maiden

at large. To have to wait eight years for a chance of propos

ing to the man of your choice is not to be endured. Maids of

Great Britain rise against this tyranny, and if a special dispen

sation is not given you in these hard times, create one foryourselves.

— St. James Gazette, December, '99.

76 THE SPHINX,

flature's finalogieg.

To no class of investigators does Nature so graciously revealthe sublimity of her method and purpose as to the student of

the stars. Obligated to a system of interpretation founded

on the rationalism of induction and correspondence, he per

ceives in every reflection of the great Mother Soul a grandeur

and a reality undemonstrable through the concepts of physical

science.

His philosophy teaches him that in order the more fully tocomprehend the purport of his own being, the center of whichis diffusive of all manner of tumults and emotions, the mind

must be able to grasp the meaning of the center of the enveloping universe with it

s

attendant satellites, each of

which is likewise expressive o

fa specific impulse.

There are many paths, but none which lead so logically andsurely to an intellectual contemplation o

f

the Central Essenceitself, as that afforded by the scale of similitudes; for from the sun

as the positive element ofa stupendous system, to the wondrous

aggregate of

molecular activities which constitute the planet,

thence through the order of

lesser cosmic bodies into those

more etherealized forms that finally resolve themselves into the

invisible and fluidic essences, all are essential agencies in thetransmission o

f

the universal soul principle, and concentered in

the One Law. -Though the material thinker regard the physical sun as thesource o

f

terrestrial life, the astral physicist recognizes in the

solar luminary a basic principle which exists in every instance

of organic life, be it a composite universe ora microscopic

atom. Therefore, as the sun generates a light of its own, by

analogy one must understand that every physical impulse, andevery center o

f energy, emits a like principle, whether it be a

visible ray or

an

unsensed psychic emanation.Thus, each molecule asa world unto itself educes a light

energy which may be conceived as its very own, augmented or

NATURE's ANALOGIES. 77

modified according to its relationship with coterminous activi

ties. The atom as a member ofa group is in turn but a cen

tralization of unities, each expressing its individual measure of

luminosity, and of just as much importance in the Universal

Economy as is the ponderous planet swinging majestically in its

celestial pathway.

This luminous principle is everywhere. Whether manifest or

unmanifest, it is omnipresent. Darkness is not the “absence of

light,” but an abeyance in its

manifestation. The tiny flashemitted by the flint is as much an entity prior to it

s

emission as

at

the time of that act. From which we deduce that the human

ego whose illumination is obscured by the density of his astralenvironment, has latent within him not only the possibilities o

f

the man whose beacon shines from the mountain top, but likewise the potentiality of the universe o

f

which he is a part.

One may attain to a quasi-scientific understanding of light

through dynamic, fluidic, etherio-atomic, and what-not theories.

These confusion of terms, however, have but an external signi

ficance, for Light is not only the incessantly active principle oflife, but is Life, the self-subsistent motive power that mutualizes

the many forces which range from the Infinitesimal to theImmeasurable.

Light is God, the center of Being, G), UNITY.

Though Nature revel in diversity, yet she adheres to a mostefficient system o

f

relations and affinities. All her forces are butrelative, no one o

f

which can be apprehended except through

its association with some other force. That which acts musthave something to act upon, else no cognizance can be taken of

either. One speaks of

the light of the sun, but if all space

beside were a void, there could be

no conception ofa luminous

principle in the celestial organism. Whence it comes thatNature abhors a void o

ra vacuum. Throughout her domain

Force and Matter—or Energy and Crystallization— are butco-ordinate factors, each equally dependent upon the other for

its

measure of expression. To them may be ascribed the foster

parentage of every phenomenal impulse.

And herein arises the duality of Being, G)— ), positive

78 THE SPHINX.

negative, cause-effect, male-female — an interrelation of antithetical terms which but serve to impress us with the fact thatdivision in Nature is assumed and not real. Though Venus beregarded as the antithesis of Mars, yet in all natural operations

this principle is dependent upon a recognition of its polar

opposite, for love ( ? ) as a unifying factor can be apparent

only through a cohesion ( 3 ) of the different impulses involved.

Likewise Saturn, as the symbol of crystallization, though usually

associated with the negation of light and heat, is,

in the world

of soul, directly related to the vital force of the Sun, because

life (G)) can become individualized only through that convergence o

f

activities which ultimate in form (b. ).

And so on, throughout the realms of nature do we find perfect equilibrium contingent upon the law o

fmutual contrasts —

DUALITY.With Unity as the basis of existence, and Duality a

sa con

dition prerequisite to all

creative processes, the Trinity follows

as a natural sequence; for as there is male-female so must

there be

the child. Isis and Osiris without Horus would repre

sent a union without purpose or

result.

It is not to be marvelled at

that in the doctrinal theologies

this term should be so perversive of

its true meaning. But to

the astrologer, unburdened of grotesque religiosity, it expresses

a law of supernal force whose divinity lies beyond the purview of

sect or

creed. In its aspect as Mercury, Sulphur and Salt, or

spirit, soul and body, he recognizes in the Trinity the three

fundamental divisions of Substance, which, evolving through

the four mystic elements, constitute the seven principles of

eternal nature.

These phases of Being may be readily illustrated by means of

the solar spectrum. Thus, Unity is literally expressed by thepure white ray. Passing this through the prism —analogous to

the astral plane—we find the trinity in the three distinct gradations o

f color known as the primaries, or blue, yellow and red.

The duality is indicated in the two poles, the blues representing

the negative by reason of

their refrangibility, and the reds thepositive because less capable of

deflection. From the natural

NATURE'S ANALOGIES. 79

affinities or admixtures of the three we get four subdivisions, orsecondaries, which complete the seven color tones of the prismatic scale. This analogy to the seven functional planes of vibration as interpreted through the planets, is obvious.And so, in the tiny ray of light which comes twinkling as in

secret mirth through the open lattice, do we find blended, andfull capable of analyzation, the genetic principles which govern

the universe. Truly, God's ways are not altogether past findingout !

Field scientifically demonstrated the numerical value of thethree primary colors, yellow, red and blue, to be respectively

three, five and eight. Whether or not Field was aware of theoccult significance embodied in this ascription we cannot say,

though true it is that the complement of these is sixteen, orI +6 = 7, the mystic number of the seven principles or intermediates in both man and the Macrocosm.

To the astrologer these three numerals lend additional interest, which may be best considered in the following arrangement

of analogies:

8. Blue. S- Actinism. Decomposition. Spring.

3. Yellow. O Light. Transformation. Summer.

5. Red. + Heat. Combination. Autumn.

These numerical proportions are thus found to correspond

with the celestial chart, in that the eighth house is significant of

death, putrefaction, conformably to the axiom that “out of corruption shall come incorruption”; the third, as ruling the mind,

accords with the Divine Intelligence that, through the functions

of the fifth house (offspring), effects the individualization ofspirit through matter.

The principal scheme of Nature is revealed in the threeglyphs, constituting as they do the symbol of § , or the trueprima materia which forms the basis of every chemical process,

whether it relate to a vulgar or a spiritual regimen.

Through the chemical values as given above, light, heat,action,- one may study the trinity in its application to externalphenomena. Light and heat are specific verities within the

8O THE SPHINX.

ken of every intelligent being, because visually perceived andconsciously felt. This third attribute, however, is not so familiar to the mind unconcerned with the deeper intricacies ofNature, yet nevertheless a most essential factor in that laboratory

of activities wherein the Seen and the Unseen are correlated

into harmonious forms and values.

As the efficient principle in the production of chemicalchanges it is aptly illustrated in the following trinal processes,

viz.: The chlorides and bromides are reducible through Decomposition, which, among the gases, is identical with the process

of vaporation; in Combination, or a union of chemical affinities, as of chlorine and hydrogen into hydrochloric acid, or of

chlorine and sodium into common salt; and in Transformation

or a varying of the molecular energies, as the solution of iron

into crystals, or, more easily apprehended, the bleaching of

linen or cotton fabrics by exposure to the sunlight. Likewise

are all

the various gradations of color in the evolution of plant

forms but different expressions of

actinic force.

To extend the analogy, we find this arrangement to accordwith the variations in the chemical action of the elements

throughout the progress of

the seasons, emphasizing the fact

that actinism, light, and heat, or

the colors of

the solar spectrum, are but successive dominating principles in all naturalgrowth, and that natural forces never act a

t

variance with theirestablished laws.

Thus, in the spring of

the year, when Nature's impulse is

toward germination, the rays predominantly active are the

actinic ( ; , 21, b ). This is because a negative condition is

essential to the incipient stage of plant life, wherein decomposi

tion, as the first step towards fructification, is coincident with

the germinal.

As the summer approaches, the actinic rays diminish, whilethose o

f light (39, Q,

G)) relatively increase. Nature, ever a

wise conservator, has husbanded her luminous principle during

the embryotic period, that it might be

utilized at

this season in

various essential combinations, and in effecting the carbonic

secretions which are to assist in the fibrous growth of

her

NATURE's ANALOGIES. 8 I

vegetable life; as also for the assimilation of the chlorophylle,

or green coloring matter, with which the offshoots and tiny

tendrils are tinged. This division of the year is centered inthe green (3D), the middle or pivotal ray of the spectrum, andincludes those formative processes wherein the law of chemicalaffinity is most active.Continuing towards the red or positive polar ray ( 3 ), we tracethe similitude in Nature to the heat forces which prevail in theripening season, through and by which the yielding and semifluidic qualities of the gestative and circulatory processes aretransformed and developed into the perfection of weight andsolidity. The negative forces have thus become polarized by

the positive, and equilibration is the result.With this corollation of the threefold methods of the season

of fructification, the differentiating potencies are apparently

withdrawn, and “earth returns to earth, and dust to dust.”

The Trinity, however, has but merged into the fourth quadrant,

— winter, or Nature in abeyance,— which in sum makesI+2+3+4+ Io, the number of Unity.And so in demonstrative physics, if the prism be withdrawnthe variegated colors vanish, and once again the pure white ray

appeals to us as the symbol of the Eternal One.For in diversity there is Unity

HAZELRIGG.

A SENTIMENTAL BURGLAR.

MRs. DELIA MENDEs, a well-known New York Sixth Avenue milliner,has been the object of a display of rare sympathy and generosity by aburglar. Her shop a week ago was broken into by night, and over $1,500worth of dresses and dress materials were stolen. The newspapers innarrating the affair dwelt on the fact that nine times she had been robbedwithin the past two years, and that the poor lady was almost in despair ofever being free from thieves.A few days afterwards a letter reached her, stating that in view of thefact that she had already contributed so largely to the support of the burglar confraternity, her goods on this occasion would be entirely returned.As a matter of fact the entire plunder was handed in the same day at atransport office, and delivered on her business premises next morning.

— Herald for July, 1899.

82 THE SPHINx.

H Challenge amo Itº Regult.

THE Philistines, dwellers in Canaan, unhappy outsiders towhom the divine Sophia has not yet revealed the splendor of

her countenance, may be divided into three tribes. Complete

ignorance is common to them all, but their mental attitude

towards the Astro logos and the chosen people varies considerably, according to the city from which they come. The first,

the dwellers in Gath, by far the greater number, are not really

hostile at all, half believing, indeed, and showing a pleased

curiosity when the chance arises of a clever or gratuitous horoscope, but being weak-kneed and conventionally-minded folkthey are intimidated by the overbearing dogmatism of their

teachers and leaders in Philistia. Like the sheep of Panurge,however, these excellent people will come over in troops whentheir bell-wethers lead the way.

The second tribe, the dwellers in Ascalon, are less friendly,

less amenable to argument, noisier and more positive, wise in

their own conceit, of whom the journalist with his professional

cant and pose of omniscience is a type. These are firmly convinced that there is nothing in heaven or earth or in the waters

beneath that cannot be reached by their little fire balloons or

sounded by their spade and plummet. Unknown to these

barn-door fowl are the vast subterranean fires and the lightning

that the eagle sees striking upward at the solitary peaks It isnot, however, impossible to convert an individual even of this classby a great and disinterested expenditure of mental energy, butthey are rarely worth the trouble, and would diligently hidetheir light under a bushel were Providence indiscreet enough toreveal an unfashionable truth to them.

The third and last tribe, the dwellers in Ashdod, are the mosthopeless, stupid, prejudiced, obstinate and insolent of all; theproverbial deaf adder of the Psalmist is their symbol — peoplewho, in the graphic phrase of Mathew Arnold, talk a certainclaptrap like a steam-engine until they can imagine no other.

A CHALLENGE AND ITS RESULT. 83

These are the Darwinian materialists and crawl-on-their-belly

“scientists" who having rejected all belief in any Revelation oranything supersensuous, are fiercely opposed to any such obvious proof of divine foreknowledge and over-ruling power in aworld in which, according to one of their high priests, man isprobably descended through the monkey from a bug (/) which,carried on a meteorite, fell here at some unknown period from

somewhere. The present writer is superstitious enough to prefer

in a question so beyond our knowledge the authority of thegreat Hebrew seer and lawgiver who has described for us with

the sublimity which is a peculiar attribute of the Saturnian race

from which he sprang, the vision in which the six days ofCreation were enrolled before him. Moses further tells us that

the lights in the firmament—the Sun, Moon and planets, wereappointed “for signs and for seasons”; a statement which ispractically repeated by the great teacher from whose birth,

heralded by a star and witnessed by magi, i. e., astrologers, we

date the flight of

time. As long, however, as the enemies ofwhat is in fact the most ancient and noble of the human

sciences, the mother of

them all, which so great and religiously

minded a man as Dante studied and called “best and wisest and

without defect,” confine themselves to vague denunciations andgeneralities they are safe; but now and then grown overboldwith fancied security, some unwary and conceited Goliath comesout to battle and receives in full forehead the reward of his

ignorant presumption. Of these there is little talk in Gath andAshdod, nor is their discomfiture published in the streets o

f

Ascalon. The story of the famous Italian scholar, Pico dellaMirandola, who was called the Malleus Astrologorun from thefrequent attacks h

e

made on

the astrologers of

his day, and whoactually died a

t

the time predicted by them, is too well known

to be repeated here. Another esprit fort of the period, a French

man, Le Sieur de Pavillon, wrote a dull and stupid little book,

a copy of which is in the British Museum library, attackingamong others the great and greatly misunderstood Nostradamus.Curiously enough the Sieur is now remembered and snatched

from oblivion, preserved for us like a fly in amber (not that the

84 THE SPHINX.

thing was either rich or rare, but wonder how the devil it got

there !) by the very prediction eractly dated of the French Revolution in 1789, and it

s

duration to 1815, which he

held up to

the ridicule of

his contemporaries. Nostradamus is so great a

man that he loses little by recognizing the still more curious fact

that the astonishing prediction of

what would happen in 1789

was the common property of

the mediaeval astrologers, and was

first made by the Arab astronomer Albumazar (776-885 A.D.)

in his De Magnis Conjunctionibus (also in the B.

M.

library)nearly a thousand years before the event' An undoubted fact(and recognized a

s such in Mignet's great “Catholic Encyclopedia,”) which makes the frequent sneers a

t

the “superstitions

of

the Arabian astrologers” fashionable with some modernastrologers who should know better and have more reverence

for their predecessors, to say the least ofit premature. What

living astrologer can feel confident that the bow of Ulysses in

his hands will sing its

swallow note of victory over time and

fate over a thousand years?-

In our own time the late R. A. Proctor, a brilliant popularizer

of

astronomical knowledge, repeatedly went out of

his way to

attack this “hoary" and “exploded superstition” to which, however, he conceded a noble past historically and a perfectly reason

able basis in theory. But he went on

to add, “this fascinatingtheory, which has in every age attracted the greatest minds, does

not work out in practice and hard fact, because, forsooth, thepredictions o

f

some astrologers (often, alas, ignorant quacks)

dealing with an enormously difficult and complex subject, do

notalways come off, like one might add the predictions a

s to the

recurrence of

comets and other rare phenomena which some

times (incredible as it may sound to the unlearned) actually fail

of accomplishment' A careful study of all

that Mr. Proctor haswritten o

n

the subject shows conclusively by the ludicrous blunders made, that he had not acquired enough practical knowledge

of

the science to even erect a figure of

the heavens correctly,

much less to intelligently interpret the same. Apparently like

a man who has a dashing leader to write in a given time, he read

the subject up

hastily, and of

course without the least profit or

A CHALLENGE AND ITS RESULT.85

real understanding of the problems involved, as indeed was

inevitable with such a spirit of foregone conclusion. Once, however, he forgot himself, and venturing out of the forest of gen

eralities into the open to challenge the enemy, at once fell avictim to his temerity.

It happened thus: In the “Cornhill Magazine” for July,1877, appeared an essay from his pen entitled “The Planet ofWar,” in which the following remarkable passage occurs: (Theitalics are ours.)“But ifMars were in truth the planet of War, if his influencepoured from near at hand (in perigee) upon the nations of thisearth, excited them to war and bloodshed, we might well fearthat the coming months would bring desolation in many fairterrestrial fields. For Mars has not blazed so fiercely in ourskies since 1845, nor will he so shine again for forty-seven years

as during the last days of August and the opening days of Sep

tember. Moreover, Aurice during his period of greatest splendor, his rays will be closely conjoined with those of the malignplanet Saturn, the greater Infortune, as Mars himself is thelesser Infortune of astrologic systems.”Well, the God of War, who has an occasional rough sense ofhumor, and an insufficient appreciation of the dignity of professors, did pick up the gauntlet thus contemptuously thrownto him. The Russo-Turkish war declared on the 24th of April,1877, and at first regarded by European diplomacy as a mere“walk over" for the Russians, soon developed, as foretold byZadkiel, symptoms of unexpected severity. For the Turk if abeast in certain ways, like the wild boar (also ruled by Virgo)when disturbed in his native lair, has a terrible and death-dealing tusk. And mark this for it is very important: on the veryday, the Ioth of December, on which Mars entered his domaldignity the fiery Aries (o degrees 2 minutes ºf noon Greenwich)Plevna was carried by storm with a carnage unsurpassed in history. This — a river of blood, a hecatomb of the slain, was theironical answer of the Red Planet to the pedant who had daredto dispute his power over the destinies of mankind. In thebiting epigram of Levy, eventus estultorum magister est. The

~

86 THE SPHINX.

cardboard helmet of theory collapsed ignominiously at the first

blow of the iron edge of fact. Well, behold the result, in the

edition of collected papers “Poetry of Astronomy, 1881,” in

which this essay is reprinted, while all the cheap sneers areretained, the whole of the above passage is omitted. There ismagnanimity for you, and a delicate sense of fair play ! We arereminded of the valorous knight in Chaucer, who, when threat

ened by a giant, quickly slips away, on the plea that he willreturn next day, but having got round the nearest corner makes

“tracks" with all speed, and unblushingly attributes his safety

to God's grace and his own “fair beringe.” From such adversaries, and they are all more or less of this opportunist sort, aFalstaffian regiment, Astrology has nothing to fear; she whois older than the Pyramids, which she will survive, the “daughter

of the Voice of God”— whom the poet saw in vision and addressed under another name in the beautiful words:

“Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wearThe Godhead's most benignant grace;

Nor know we anything so fairAs is the smile upon thy face :Flowers laugh before thee on their beds

And fragrance in thy footing treads;

Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong;

And the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.”

KYMRY.

COINCIDENCE IN DEATH.

A CURIOUS fact was mentioned at an inquest held yesterday at Greenwich on the body of Thomas Carmichael, who was drowned in the Thames

on Saturday, Jan. 20.

The deceased's son was drowned at the same spot on Jan. 20, 1891,

and Inspector Mott, of the Thames Police, who recovered the son's bodythen, recovered the father's body now. — Evening AVews.

PROVE ALL THINGS. 87

“Drowe all (Ibingg.”

THERE are many ways that the truths of astrology may beproved, even to the satisfaction of opponents or to those who

have an open mind on the subject, and a simple method occurs

to me how it might easily be done. It would also prove thetruth of an old aphorism that has appeared in many of theastrological almanacs for some considerable time, for, as students

well know, many of these axioms do not stand the test ofexperience. True, the fault may have been on the part of thetranslators, for unless they have knowledge on the subject upon

which their erudition is engaged they may unwittingly give

a far different interpretation to that intended by the author, of

which many poor examples are, from an astrological standpoint, to be found in the pages of Holy Writ.The aphorism to which I refer is

,I believe, credited to

Claudius Ptolomy, and as given by translators is: “Pierce not

with iron that part of

the body which may be governed by

the sign

actually occupied by

the Moon.” I therefore suggest that allreaders o

f THE SPHINX if they know of any one who has to

undergo a surgical operation of any kind, to find out at what

time, and date, and upon what part of the body such operation

has been performed, and the result; how long a time haselapsed from the time and date o

f

the operation to the period of

cure, or

death.

When the time of

such performance is known, a glance at

theEphemeris for the date will show the sign occupied b

y

the Moon,

and it can then be

seen whether it is a case in which the veracity

of

the aphorism can be regarded.

For example, the Moon on the 13th and 14th of December

is in Taurus (8) which rules the neck, throat, ears, etc. Now

if the aphorism is reliable, these are unfortunate days for

opera

tions to be performed on

those parts.

It occurs to me at this juncture that one or two modifyingfactors may affect results, and they are: firstly, how the Moon is

88 THE SPHINX.

aspected in the Ephemeris on the day of such operation; andsecondly, what the radical indications in the horoscope andoperating directions are. On the dates above cited the Moonhas very evil aspects, and if the aphorism is reliable, operations

done on those days would not bring permanent benefit.I trust I have made matters clear on the subject, and if anysurgeons are subscribers to THE SPHINX they could renderastrology signal service and perhaps benefits to themselves by

the experience thus gained.

In this connection I would suggest that my friend “Sepharial's " permission be obtained for the article on “The parts ofthe body ruled by the signs aud houses,” which originally

appeared in the Astrologers' Magazine, Vol. I.,

and subsequently in Sepharial's “Manual of Astrology,” to be inserted in

THE SPHINX, and if our esteemed editress could induce him to

give a series of examples in support of

such article, it wouldgive a fillip to the cause and be of immense service to students and also to doctors and surgeons who know something

of astrology. I must not encroach further upon your space, but

would finally suggest that such information be sent to theeditress in the following tabulated form:Time and date of operation.

Part of the body operated upon. State right or

left side, frontor back.

Result of operation.Age and sex of patient.Exact time, date and place of birth if possible.

N. B.-Such information would only be needed if the Moonwas a

t

the time of operation in the sign ruling the part of the

body affected.

A LIST OF THE SIGNs which RULE THE DIFFERENT PARTS OFTHE BODY.

Aries rules the head and face.Taurus rules the neck and throat.

Gemini rules the hands, arms and shoulders.

Cancer rules the stomach and breast.

PROVE ALL THINGS. 89

Leo rules the heart and back.

Virgo rules the bowels.Libra rules the veins and loins.Scorpio rules the sex functions.Sagittarius rules the hips and thighs.

Capricorn rules the knees and bones.Aquarius rules the ankles.Pisces rules the feet and toes.

APHOREL.

THE poetry of earth is never dead as the following passage probably

written by Sir Edwin Arnold, in the Daily Telegraph of Dec. 10, 1897, willshow: “Springfield, Mass., Nov. 26. Miss Lucinda Day died today at

the

age of

90 in a quaint little house in West Springfield where she had

lived all

her life. Seventy years ago Miss Day had a love affair. Herlover was a sailor and on his departure for a voyage Miss Day promised toPlace every night a candle in the window to greet him if he returned in thenight. He has never since been heard o

f,

but Miss Day has always

rufused to believe that he

was dead. Tonight was the first night for 70

years that a candle has not shone in the window." . . . In any mortal*ense it was a folly, a madness . . . “For she loved much 1” That** the splendid praise once bestowed b

y

the holiest lips upon a woman,

*d with a promise of a boundless reward. Let those who will laugh at

the nightly candle of

the Hero of

the Massachusetts shore, and content*selves with their own world of hard realities. Lovers and poets andthose who think that heaven is n

o dream, and eternal justice no

fable will

like

to trust that with the flicker of

that last faithful candle, he

came* no

seaworn mariner, but the

lover of

her youth, restored to her as

**mpanion of her eternal and unspeakable blessedness.

90 th. E. SPHINX.

Cbe flypsterp of Rectification.

THE elder Zadkiel gives a rule in the “Grammar of Astrology” for rectification by “accidents,” when the exact time ofbirth is not exactly known. Oxley, in the “Gem of the AstrialSciences,” complains that Zadkiel pilfered this rule from his earlier treatise on the Planesphere without giving him credit, and hethought so much of this rule that he warns future authors that

it is his copyright. Oxley is exceedingly verbose in his definition and elucidation of his method, while Zadkiel puts it in morecompact form, but neither told their readers that when denuded

of mathematical mystery it simply resolved itself into a simple

problem of proportion. There is really nothing remarkableabout it

,

and certainly not much originality, notwithstanding

Oxley's boasting. I will make this clear by going over theexample given by Oxley to illustrate the rule o

n page 171 of

the “Gem.” But first turn to the “Grammar” or “Pearce's

Text-Book” and read the rule. Oxley's example is Ds

D G)

inthe natus o

f “T. F. Y.,” the arc required being 14 degrees

2 I minutes. The first calculation of

the arc for the esti

mated time (4 hours 45 minutes A.M.) gives 13 degrees 30 min

utes, 51 minutes too short. The next calculation for 40 minutes

later gives 14 degrees 7 minutes, which is 14 minutes too short.

He then has the following data:

Position MERID. DIs. G)

ERRoRs Products

First Io9.5o 14' 1537.920'

Second 99.52 51' 5093.12'

Differences 37' 3555.932'

This 3555.32 divided by 37 minutes gives 96 degrees 6 min

utes, equal to 6 hours 24 minutes Solar time, which is equivalent

to 5 hours 40 minutes clock time, the correct time of birth, 55

minutes later than the estimated time. Now what does this

array of figures amount to ? Only a very simple problem in

the rule of three; thus:

THE MYSTERY OF RECTIFICATION. 9 I

Difference between the errors (37 minutes): is to the firsterror (51 minutes): so is the difference in time between thefirst and second estimates (40 minutes): to the correction required (55m.), which, in this case, must be added to the estimated time.

I would make the rule read something like this:I. Calculate the arc for the estimated time.

2. Assume a time a few minutes earlier or later, and calculate the arc for that time.

3. Find the difference between these arcs.

4. Find the difference between the arc required and the calculated arc which is nearest to it.

5. Find the difference between the estimated and assumedtime.

Then by proportion: As the difference of the calculatedarcs, is to difference of nearest calculated arc and arc required,

so is the difference between the estimated time and assumed

time, to the amount of correction, which must be added to orsubtracted from the time for which the nearest arc to the true

arc was calculated, as the time required is later or earlier thanthe estimated time.

It will be noted that in the Oxley example I have used thedifference in time between the first and second estimates for the

third term and the result, is added to the first estimate. Eitherformula can be used, as the result will be the same.

B. C. MURRAY.

“I am the owner of the spheres,Of the seven stars and the solar years,Of Caesar's hand and Plato's brain,

Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.”— EMERSON.

92 THE SPHINX.

£in Tllustrateo Horogcope.

SHowING How ASTROLOGERs ForM THEIR JUDGMENTs.

LADY BORN WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1871, AT 7.30 A.M., NEW YORK CITY.

--

This lady was born under A person is said to be bornthe Sun in Cancer in good under that planet which is lordaspect to the Moon in mid- of or rules the sign rising on theheaven with Leo rising. eastern horizon at birth.

AN ILLUSTRATED HOROSCOPE, 93

She is near the medium

height, full built (was neverslender), has brown hair,

round face and forehead,

clear skin, a prepossessing,

attractive appearance, is talkative and good-natured.

The Ancients would describe her as “harmless,

cheerful, but at times indolent, not fond of employment,

is fond of pastimes and dancing, and fond of the opposite

sex.”

She will have many beaux,

will enjoy good health andlive to be old.

She will occasionally havesome trouble with her throat

and will suffer from indigestion.

She has weak kidneys.

She would succeed in keeping a dry goods store or aboarding-house.

Sun people are never slenderas the nature of the Sun is expansion, and here being found inthe house of the Moon wouldgive the lunar round face, and

fair skin. Leo people are always magnetic and attract othersto them.

See Lilly's “Christian Astrology,” page 306. G) in gå.

She has three good planets

and the Dragon's Head in herhouse of friends. The Moonher Giver of Life is not afflicted

and is strong and dignified accidentally and essentially.

The Moon her co-significator

is in the sign ruling the throat,thereby rendering it a sensitivepart or point. Cancer rules thestomach and Herschel an evil

planet is therein.

A cardinal sign rules thesixth, the house of sickness, and

the kidneys, and Saturn, an evil

planet is retrograde in that sign.

The Moon is in her house of

business in good aspect with the

Sun and in a sign which rules

feminine things, also in the sign

ruling the throat.

94 THE SPHINX.

She will have many friendsand be much esteemed bythem.

She is unfortunate with near

relatives.

She must keep away alsofrom her husband's relatives.

They will turn her friendsagainst her.

She will always be a lady,

and will move in good society.

She will become wealthy.

She is above the average in

intellect and will learn rapidly

anything she applies her mindto, but will not possess steady

application or industry.

She has many good planets in

her house of friends in good aspect with the Moon, her co-significator.

Mars an evil planet is in thethird house which rules sisters,

brothers and cousins.

The ninth house rules the husband's near relatives and the evil

planet Neptune is there, and

besides an evil planet rules thathouse.

Neptune is making a bad aspect with good planets in herhouse of friends.

The Sun is in a cardinal sign

and in good aspect with theMoon, who is in the sign of herexaltation, and is elevated bybeing in her midheaven; showing she will move in good society

or occupy a good position inlife.

Mercury rules the second, her

house of money and is in good

aspect with the Moon, and Venusthe Lesser Fortune is on the

cusp.

Mercury who rules the intellect is in conjunction with theSun, but both being in a change

able and watery sign she will notbe able to concentrate her fac

ulties. The Bible says: “Unstable as water thou canst not

excel.”

AN ILLUSTRATED HOROSCOPE. 95

She is fond of music and

the fine arts, is refined, and

cannot bear anything approaching vulgarity.

She is skeptical in religion.

She marries early in life.

She is unfortunate in her

first marriage.

Her husband will be below

the medium height, stout,

with a thin face, small eyes,

sharp nose, pale skin anddark hair.

The Ancients would say

“he is given to drink, willbe ill-natured, dishonest, and

changeable.”

She will become disgusted

with his ways, will probably

have to support him, and willend by leaving him.

She will marry again andbe more fortunate.

Venus, an artistic and refined

planet, is in her ascendant, whichhouse describes herself.

The ninth house rules religion

and an evil planet governs it,

and another evil one is therein.

For a woman's marriage wetake the Sun, and see how soon

it makes an aspect with anotherplanet after birth. It does so

here almost immediately, showing no delay.

The Sun makes a conjunction

with Mercury in Cancer, which

is unfortunate as Mercury's na

ture is spoilt and becomes shallow in a watery sign.

Cancer is a short, stout sign,

and Mercury will give its

own

characteristic features, small

eyes, thin face, dark hair, etc.

See Lilly's “Christian Astrology," page 312. § in gå.

She is his superior as her cosignificator is the highest up andSaturn lord of the seventh house

ruling her marriage is retrograde,showing they will drift apart.

The Sun has to change signs

before it makes another aspect

when it is a good one.

96 THE SPHINX.

Her second husband will He is described by Moon inbe tall, slender, well built, Libra — which is a tall, slenderwith an oval face, light com- sign, and Mars characteristicsplexion, light hair, mustache are generally a blonde mustache,lighter than his hair, high a high forehead, pointed noseforehead, sharp nose, quick, and an eagle eye.

sparkling eyes.

The Ancients would say, See Lilly’s “Christian Astrol“He will be brisk, cheerful, ogy,” page 303. 3 in ce.fond of dress, having a proud

and straight walk, is conceited

and fond of boasting.”

He will be a good business The third house here becomes

man. his first as his planet is foundtherein, and the twelfth will become his tenth or house of

business. It is ruled by theMoon, found in her exaltation ingood aspect with Mercury andthe Sun, who are on the cusp ofhis tenth.

He will become well off. Jupiter rules the house signifying her husband's money andis in good aspect with Venus,

both fortunate planets.

He is likely to travel, or The eleventh here becomes

may be engaged on railroads his ninth, the house of long jouror be a machinist. neys and railroads, and Herschel

who rules machinery and inven

tions is on the cusp of his houseof business.

She will be fond of him The aspect that the Sunand will respect him. makes to his planet is a good

one, and he is a well-disposed,

energetic fellow, and the very

opposite of her first husband.

CATHARINE H. THOMPson.

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 97

(Ibe H3trologer's Uabe (IDecum.

CHAPTER II.— To CALCULATE THE CUSPS OF THE HOUSES.

THERE are two methods for calculating the longitudes ofthe cusps, namely, from Tables of Oblique Ascensions and by

Spherical Trigonometry. I prefer the former, yet by bothmethods Tables of Houses can be accurately calculated for any

desired degree and minute of latitude as far north or south

as the obliquity of the ecliptic will permit. At 66° of northlatitude I tried to make Tables of Houses and found the six

northern signs all at the Ascendant. The reason of this wasthat none of the six southern signs are ever seen above thehorizon in that high, northern latitude; nor are any of the six

northern signs ever seen above the horizon in the same high,

southern latitude. This explains why the days are six monthslong at the poles, and nights the same.

About March 21 the Sun enters Aries and they have sunrise

at the north pole and sunset at the south pole. Then, for sixmonths, the Sun will be transiting through the six northern signs,

and will be constantly above the horizon, for the northern signs

never set to the observer at the north pole, and the six southernsigns never set to an observer at the south pole. Thus we seethat at the poles a day and night are equal to one year in thetorrid and temperate zones, and they have Sabbath only once inseven years, and then it lasts a whole year.

I shall calculate these cusps from Tables of Oblique Ascension, and later will give an example of computing the cusps by

Spherical Trigonometry, the first step will be to rule off a blankTable as follows:

HOUSEs. ASCENSIONS. POLES. CUSPs.

IO 3o 1.14 R.A. OO.OO 29 V8 5i i 331. 14 O.A. 23.46 22 : 34I 2 I.i.4 “ 40.52 2 of Ioi 31. 14 “ 5 I. 3 I I II 232 61.14 “ 40.52 23 DI 423 91. 14 “ 23.46 I I go 3

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ExPLANATIONS.

The longitudes of the cusps of the IOth and 4th houses are

calculated by R. A., but all

the others by Oblique Ascension.Having found the R

. A. of the cusp of the Ioth house I write

it in the foregoing Table, and then add 30° to it for the O.

A. of

the I Ith house; to which I add 30° more for the O.

A. of theI2th house, and so on. When I added for the 12th house thesum was more than 360° and I “rejected the circle,” that is

,

subtracted 360° from the sum and proceeded with the remainder,

adding to it the 30° for the O. A. of the Ist house.The third column in the Table is headed “Poles,” the meaning o

f

which is the latitude of

the cusps. The Ioth house has

no latitude, and at that point latitude begins, increasing steadily

to the Ist house, or Ascendant, the pole of which is always

the latitude of

the birthplace. The Encyclopaedia Britannicagives the latitude o

f

St. Paul's Cathedral, London, as 51° 30' 48",

while Raphael, in his London Tables of Houses gives it as 51°32'.As 48" are more than half a minute, I write the latitude 51°31',

or1' less than Raphae, and for 51° 31' I shall calculate the

cusps.

The next step is to calculate the poles, which should be doneby Spherical Trigonometry. The student who has not learned

to work with logarithms can easily learn from some friend whounderstands higher mathematics. The first to find is Ascensional Difference by the following rule and example:

RULE.

To the Log. tangent of the latitude of birthplace, add theLog. tangent o

f

the Obliquity of the Ecliptic (O. E.) and thesine o

f

the sum will be the A. D.

(Ascensional Difference).The O. E

.

is now and will be for the next half century, the

nearest minute to 23° 27'. At present the obliquity is a fewseconds more than 23° 27', but a

s it is decreasing, and decreases so slowly, it will require many years before theobliquity will be less than 23° 26' 30" and as we take the nearestminute without working with the seconds, it will continue23° 27.

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 99

ExAMPLE.

Lat. of birthplace, 51.3 I, tangent= I.O.O9965+ Obliquity of the Ecliptic, 23.27, tangent= 9.63726

= Ascensional Difference 33.O4 Sine= 9.7369 I

# A. D.= I I.OI# A. D.=22.03

To avoid errors always adopt this formula for finding A. D.for then in formulating the statements for finding the poles ofthe houses you have only to copy the sum of 4 or ; A. D.without having to calculate it

.

RULE.

The Log. sine of the A. D.; plus the cotangent of the

O.E. equal the tangent of the Poles of the I Ith and 3d houses,

for they are at equal distance from a meridian and therefore

must have the same pole, or

latitude.

ExAMPLE.

# Asc. Dif. I I.O.I., sine = 9.281.25

+ Ob. Ecliptic 23.27, cotangent = I.O.36274

= Poles I Ith and 3d houses, 23.46, tangent = 9.64399

RULE.

The Log. sine of § A. D.; plus the Log. cotangent of the

O. E., equal the tangent of the Poles of

the 12th and 2d houses,

for they are at equal distance from a meridian and therefore

their Poles must be the same.

ExAMPLE.

# A. D. 22.03, sine

+ O.

Ecliptic 23.27 COt.

= Poles 12th and 2d houses, 40.52, tan. = 9.93725

9.5745 I

IO.36274

TABLES OF OBLIQUE ASCENSION.

Tables of Oblique Ascension are for converting O.

A. intolongitude for any given latitude, that is,

the Poles from 1% to

60° inclusive. Therefore, in the Tables which we give here

70 ($365 A

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after, when we desire to convert 331°14' of O. A. into longitude,we look in the table where we inserted the Poles, and find the

Pole of the II th house, 23°46', showing that we must turn to23° of latitude, in the Tables of O. A. and convert the 331°14'into longitude just as though the Pole was only 23° and notregard the 46' till later. When this is done, turn to latitude 24° in the Tables and convert the 331°14' into longitude

in precisely the same way and place the result under the

result of 23° Pole, noting if the longitude is more or less forthe Pole of 24” than it was for 23°. Subtract the less from thegreater and the remainder will show how much the longitude

has increased or decreased from 23° to 24°. Then make a

statement in Proportion thus: 60 is the 1st term; the gain

or loss of longitude is the 2d term; and the minutes of thePole are the 3d term; in this case the minutes are 46. The

4th term is found by multiplying the 2d and 3d terms together

and dividing by the 1st, or by the Tables of 4th terms in anotherpart of this work. The 4th term must be added to the longi

tude found in Pole of 23° if the longitude is increasing, butsubtracted from it if the longitude is decreasing. The result

will be the longitude of the cusp of the 11th house.

ExAMPLE.

The O. A. next smaller than 331° 14', in Pole of 23° is330°33'; looking to the top of the column in which we find it

,

we see “ ºr ",

and out to the left in the first column headed

“Long,” we see “22,” showing that 22° of ::: are on the cusp

of

the 11th house. But our O.

A.is 331°14' and we have

equated only 330° 33'. Hence, 331. 14 – 330.33 = O’41'.There are then 41' of O

.

A. to be converted into longitude.

Find the difference between 330°33' and the next O.

A. below; .

it is 50', showing that at this point in the Table 50' of O.

A.

[Norb. As this work is not likely to appear in book form for several months, and as thestudent may be

desirous of learning to work by

the “Tables of 4th Terms,” “Tables of Propor

tionals" and of “Oblique Ascensions,” he

can find all three in “Chaney's Primer of Astrology.”

The two former were calculated by Prof. Chaney and cannot be

found in any other work. Tables

of Oblique Ascension were calculated a century ago and the work containing them is now out of

print.]

THE ASTROLOGER's vaLE MECUM. I O I

will make I*, or 60', of longitude. Hence the statement: As50: 60:: 4 I. The answer can be found in the “Tables ofProportionals,” or may be computed by multiplying the 2d and3d terms together and dividing by the 1st. Answer, 49' whichmust be placed on the right of “22::: ” making it “22:49.”This would be the longitude of the cusp of the 11th house if thePole had no minutes; but as the Pole has 46' of latitude wemust make the same calculation in the Pole of 24° and find

whether the longitude gains or loses, and how much, by increasing the Pole 60'. Having found this it must be equated by

Table of 4th Terms and the answer added to 22:49 or subtracted from it.

In Pole of 24° the O. A. next smaller than 331°14' is 330°50'and it also gives 22:::. At this point in the Table it also requiresbut 50' of O. A. to make a degree of longitude. Now there arebut 24 to be converted because 331°. 14 — 330°.50' = 24.Then: As 50: 60:: 24; 29. Place this 29 after the “22::: ”and we have 22:29. As the longitude is losing as the Poleincreases, we say: 22:49 – 22::: 29 = 20. Now by Tablesof 4th Terms: As 60: 20 :: 46: I 5. Subtract the 15 fromthe longitude of Pole 23°, thus: 22:49 — 15 = 22:34, whichis the cusp of the 11th house, to be placed in our Table.The student should carefully examine this calculation of the

cusp of the 11th house, just as though he was the teacher looking for errors, and do the same work till he can do it frommemory, without referring to the foregoing work. Howevertedious it may seem at first, he will soon master it and canconsole himself with the reflection that he has to learn it butOnce,

This method of working is my own invention and thereforenot to be found in any other book.

Computing the cusps of the 12th, 1st, 2d and 3d houses andinserting them in our Table we find the Table complete and can

make the Horoscope from the rectified data of birth. Thereason for calculating the cusps so exactly to minutes is because

in Mundane Directions we measure an arc from a cusp, the

same as from a meridian, or the same as we measure R. A. and

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longitude from the first point of Aries. Hence, an error inthe longitude of the cusp would be fatal.

The next work is to calculate a Table of Elements, called inEnglish Astrological works a “Speculum,” which means “looking-glass" and is the name of an instrument used by physicians

for examining certain diseases. Therefore the name “Speculum ” for a Table giving the Latitudes, Longitudes, Right Ascensions, etc., of the planets is inappropriate.

Before commencing work on the Table of Elements I willsuggest a mechanical method for computing the cusps which Ihave found very convenient in case of reviewing the work todetect an error, and by following it one is less likely to makeerrors. The student may conceive of a method that suits himbetter, and if so let him adopt it

.

But above all, he should employ some system and write the name o

feach factor in the

work, for otherwise he may mistake one sum of figures for another and get lost in trying to review his work. This may at

first seem unnecessary, as he can make some of

the calculations

mentally, but when he comes to review his work he may notremember them and will become confused. But if the work is

all spread out on paper, the task is far easier.

FoRMULA FOR COMPUTING THE CUSPs.

I ITH HOUSE.

Pole 23°. 46

33 I. I.4O. A.

O.

A.

next smaller 330.33 = 22 : 49 = cusp Pole 23°As 5

0 : 60 ::41 : 49= the minutes of 41’

Pole 24°. 46'

O. A. 33 I. I.4O. A. next smaller 330.50 = 22 : 29

As 50:60 :: 24:29 = minutes 24!22° 49' — 22°29' = 20' = Loss in 19 Pole

As 60:20::46:15

22 : 49 — 15' = 22 × 34 = Cusp of 11th house.

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. IO3

IST HOUSE.

Pole 51°.31'

O. A. 31°. I4'O. A. next smaller 30.5o = o II 35

As 42: 6o :: 24:35

Pole 52°.31'A. 31°. 14'

A. next smaller 31.09 = 2 II 7As 43 : 60 :: 5:7 = minutes of 5'

2 II 7— o II 35 = 1° 32' = Gain in 19 PoleAs 60: 92::31:48

o DI 35 + 48= I II 23 = Cusp of Ist house.

O.

O.

ORIGIN ON ASTROLOGY.

“Some (angels) are placed in the bodies of the Sun and Stars and areappointed to the noble office of enlightening and adoring the universe,

and continue to shine with greater or ess splendor according to theirmoral merits. The Stars are thus animated, endowed with reason and

have partaken of sin. They receive the commands of God, and move intheir prescribed courses. They still retain the attribute of freedom.Their freedom is capable of increase, or diminution, and they will hereafter be judged. They are able by their positions and aspects to prefigure

future events, and Apostate Spirits, deriving their knowledge from them

transmitted Arts of Astrology to man.”Origin, who wrote in the first half of the third century, had no equal in

the Christian church as a scholar and biblical critic before his time.

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Che Character ano ſfortuneg of Tlibra.

LIBRA bestows on those born under its

influence great gentle

ness honesty and morality, a charitable disposition and a loving and constant heart. The character is direct, simple, open,

expansive, a little melancholy, easily irritated, but soon pacified

again.

This sign gives indecision in determinations and in Counsel,

an inventive spirit, and an aptitude for the mechanical sciences

and navigation but without profit to the native.The will although strong does not always attain it

s object.

The natives are suited to study and are dexterous, have as a

rule little taste for the arts except music but much for businessand social relations in which their remarkable intuition tact and

natural charm are very helpful to them. The tastes are elevated,

and there is a keen appreciation of pleasure. The passions are

strong but well balanced. In their opinions though not theiraffections they are very versatile and are very enthusiastic about

a new idea until a newer one comes along. Property coming

from some river or

maritime industry or

at least one employing

water as a motive power will come towards the middle of life,

it will however be contested and this dispute will create open

enemies ora quarrel with the partner. The brothers and sisters

will be numerous and may be by two marriages—in any casethey will be of an entirely different nature, there will be quarrels

and disputes between them and the native. Some inharmony

with the parents is probable especially with the father, who may

not be altogether paternal to his children. Perhaps like Polly

Eccles' father (a shocking old scamp) of whom his indulgentdaughter observed with pride, “Father may have his faults but he

is a very clever man ” In a day horoscope the father may dieearly. There will be few children and little satisfaction with one

of

them. There is some instability in the family and a doublefamily and adopted parents are possible. Maladies ofa damp

order may come in later life, the organic weak points of

this sign

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF LIBRA. IO5

are those of the intestines, bladder and kidneys, and wounds to

the hands and feet are to be feared. The sign Aries which presides over marriage in this horoscope is a violent moveable and

sterile sign, if however the native marries there will be an acqui

sition of property thereby. Unexpected legacies and inheritances are to be expected they would come through the death ofa woman. Voyages by sea are prejudicial to the children of thissign. In the middle of life a reversal of position is to be expected, of which the mother may be the direct or indirect cause.

If the native aspire to honors, the access may be facilitated bythe family. There will be aristocratic or influential friends andpatrons, they will be constant, will forward the marriage, and behelpful in associations of interest, and yet the native will injure

one of them voluntarily or involuntarily. There will be secretenemies among ministers of religion, and that on account offamily matters, some enemies will also be found among men of

science and lawyers. The old astrologers say that the nativesof this sign are the cause of their own sorrows and death.

Libra gives a sanguine bilious or nervous bilious temperamentaccording to the climate. Its key or master notes are Intuitionand Equan imity.

Every sign has 30 degrees each decan or IO degrees of which

has a subinfluence of another (or the same planet):

I. Ruled by the Moon. Justice, mercy and truth, humanity, liberality and benevolence, easily influenced by the opposite

sex restless mind, changes of opposition and position which willbe more or less of a Jupiter nature, chance of acquiring land orhouses.

II. Ruled by Saturn. Ambitious active nature, great worldlywisdom, boldness and success in hardy enterprises. Rise or fall

in life by personal merit or fault. Strong family spirit, per

manent likes and dislikes. Some trouble in marriage.

III. Ruled by Jupiter. A sensuous but a kindly and generous nature, happy marriage and prosperity, many journeys, a

faithful friend and a magnanimous enemy, popularity and goodrepute.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Virgo rising at their birth.-Ed.

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Che Elrt of Raíging Doultry.*

By a proper knowledge of how to raise chickens and eggs

for market, better results can be obtained than is at present the

case. There are plenty of books devoted to this subject, but

none touch on the essential point, and consequently the demand

is not supplied. There are tons of eggs imported annually,

and there are thousands of men, women, and children at home

who could become experts in their production.

Like everything else, this must be conducted scientifically inorder to insure the greatest success, and we must take the firstlesson from the birds and fowls themselves. You will notice

that they go out before sunrise, dampen their feathers in thedew, then roll and wet their eggs; and the nearer the period ofhatching the more frequently will they do this. First, the dewis warmed by the feathers and body of the fowl before contact

with the eggs; second, the dew is always thoroughly chargedby the electric forces of the sun's rays, and here is one of thegreat secrets, for ordinary water will not have any such effect asthe dew. The sun imparts different forces each hour of the day

to the water as it is being evaporated and diffused through theatmosphere. It thus becomes impregnated with these varyingforces, and descends again to earth to energize all living things

it comes into contact with ; and it also assists in the destruction

or decomposition of all

organic metals and matter. How readily

it destroys your shoes you well know. So the hen has learnedthat the dew will energize the unhatched chickens and at the

same time decompose the shell for their easy egress.

Let us make this energizing force of the dew plainer, andmore thoroughly impress it upon your mind. You know that

if you select certain flowers and set them in rows, you can tellthe hours o

f

the day by the opening and closing of their petals,

a process which is caused by the changing of the colored rays

of

the sun from bright orange in the morning to pink at high

* Here is a splendid opportunity for the readers of THE SPHINx to make some Ain money forhemselves this year.— ED.

THE ART OF RAISING POULTRY. Io?

noon, and to purple at night. This change begins at midnight

and continues to midnight. So also these rays begin to be

more marked in orange brightness as the days begin to lengthen

in January, and change again to purple in the fall, increasing toDecember in the northern hemisphere.

Prof. Babbitt, of Los Angeles, California, has written an exhaustive work upon this subject of sun-rays in light and color,showing that all medicines known to materia medica can be

obtained in most perfect form from the sun's rays, by the useof different colored bottles filled with water and exposed to thesolar heat. Gradations by octave is the law of the Universe;

all color is by octave, all sound has these colors, and all time in

the Bible or out, is measured by octave; a hen sets three weeks,

which includes an octave measurement. Now, which of thesecolors should be used in the incubator for the best results in the

hatching of eggs, and if we cannot have the dew what colorwill come nearest to it?

It is demonstrated that by certain electric rays any givenresult can be attained in the growth of vegetables and flowers.Long yellow rays will produce a fat, crisp raddish; the shortpurple rays will produce a small, hard, wooden radish. Whenunder cover, where the rays can be adjusted to the object

sought and constantly applied, nature may be outstripped and

flowers produced which surpass in beauty those grown in thegarden where they have to contend with the elements, theclouds, wind, and rain in undue quantities, etc. The following

instance attests to the value of these hypotheses: A colony ofNorwegians once settled near Albany, N. Y., upon the sandypine lands then considered as worthless, and by rising at one

o'clock in the morning and plowing in the dew until sunrise, theland was reclaimed to a high state of cultivation.It has been demonstrated that if a blue shade is thrown uponplants through the medium of a blue glass, or through a blueveil spread over them in the sunlight, that insects will bedestroyed, though growth will not be much stimulated. Aplant placed under a red shade or covered with red glass,grows very rapidly with a firm stalk, and no other shade will

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produce so strong a growth. Here is the point: In using anincubator where it is not practicable to wet the eggs with dew,

place water in red bottles, which stand in the sun for three orfour days, the water will then have become thoroughly electrized with the solar forces, and this will be found to have the

desired energizing effect.

Now we are ready to start the incubator, and here is the mostimportant part of the operation, for chickens as well as men andwomen are under one and the same law of octaves, vibration,

sound, color, and time, upon which mathematics are based, for

God has but one law as the basic foundation upon which theUniverse is built. The chickens should come out during theFull Moon, and not only this, but on a day in which the moonis in a moveable sign, bearing in mind that a hen sets threeweeks, and ducks, turkeys, and geese four weeks. So start theincubator that the results may agree with this astrologic law, .

for by so doing they will grow faster and larger and maturequicker than if hatched in a barren sign.

Now how may you determine this? You will find a table ofthe signs occupied by the moon on each day of the year 1900,

in the December SPHINX,* and turning to page 356 you will findit will be New Moon from Jan. 30, 8.24 P.M., Eastern Timeand increasing in light until Full Moon Feb. 14, 8.50 A.M.On Feb. 3, at 2.39 A.M., the moon enters Aries, a moveablesign, and will be in that sign until the 5th, at 4.43 A.M. Ifyou set the eggs twenty-one days earlier, or on Jan. I3, they

will come off Feb. 3.;

if set Jan. 20 they will come off Feb. Io

with the moon in Cancer, the very best sign, as it is a

moveable, fruitful, watery sign, and these pullets will be thevery best layers. It will thus be seen that this matter can veryeasily be arranged under the guidance o

f astrology, and that

the hatching and rearing of pullets for egg product can be timed

to produce eggs during the season of high prices of

the coolermonths, and be ready for market in the early spring when in

most demand. Here you have chickens that have yielded a harvest of eggs, and have been sold ona high market as chickens,

before the ordinary dunghill fowl has begun to yield any fruit

*The Table mounted can be had of The Sphinx Publishing Company.

THE ART OF RAISING POULTRY. IO9

to pay her year's board. Fancy fowls and game birds, havebeen found to have tender, brittle bones, and less game orstamina when hatched in the incubator. This defect willwholly disappear if the eggs are treated with water distilledby the rays of the sun in red bottles. The proper color of 'redis produced with oxide of gold, although the common red bottle will do.

Thus, if we conform to God's law, as interpreted by astralphysics, we reap a reward in degree with the forces utilized;

but if we wilfully, ignorantly, or foolishly run counter to Hislaw, we assuredly reap as we sow, whether we are trying to raisechickens, or to germinate seeds of wisdom and love.

L. CHADWICK.

IN Sir Algernon West's Recollections there is a curious ghost story

which was told him by Browning of Mr. Ruskin. The latter as a young

man was staying at a place in Switzerland where there was a field left

waste because the villagers told him it was haunted, “for all the childrenbut not one of we, can see an old woman sitting there under a tree.”Ruskin ridiculed the idea, but a little later he left the place and went to avillage fifteen miles off. Remembering the story he asked the family inwhose house he lived, whose members had never left their native hamlet,

if he might take their young daughter for a visit to the place he had left.They consented and he drove her over. As they approached the field hesaid to the little girl, “Your eyes are younger than mine: tell me if you cansee anyone.” “Nobody,” she said, “except an old woman sitting under atree.” “Well,” said he, “what is she like?” “I can only see her back;”and then suddenly with a voice of fear, “Oh, she has turned now and Ican see her face with two holes where her eyes should be.” The story iscurious and gives a new meaning to the old text about things hidden to

older eyes being revealed to babes and sucklings.

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(Ibe Engine of jate.

It is written in the Koran that among the things knownonly to Allah are the place, the time, and the way in whichevery one will die. Nor is there any decree more benignant inall the laws of human life than that this useful and merciful veil

should be for ever suspended between our weak eyes, and theharsh outlines of the inevitable. But an incident occurred at

the time of my Indian service, wherein if it was not exactly

known that any particular person was fated, it was known only

too well and bitterly that cruel death was impending over many

persons absolutely unconscious of their peril. I am willing allthe more to recall the melancholy event in order that honormay be done to the memory of a most eminent and remarkableman, Mr. Edward Howard, the Director of Public Instruction

in the Presidency of Bombay, under the Government of LordElphinstone, and immediate Chief of the Educational Department, being therefore my official superior and directing genius

of the Bombay University, and of the Deccan College, of which

I was then president. Few abler men than my accomplishedfriend had ever served the Indian Government in that import

ant department. I had the honor to assist him in sweepingaway the old perfunctory and absurd system of native education, and substituting for it in the Indian colleges the better andsincerer methods of Western teaching. Bright, erudite and

resolute of will, he animated all our work during the years of

the Mutiny, and afterwards received deservedly the larger portion of the praise which was bestowed upon our labors by theGovernor in Council. Alas! then in the moment of his success

and high appreciation, an evil destiny condemned him to diesuddenly, by the most trivial oversight, and in a manner tragic

enough to deserve commemoration.

In traveling from Bombay to Poona we used to ascend anddescend the Ghats, the mountain range dividing the Concan

from the Deccan, either on foot or by gharries, while the coolie

THE ENGINE OF FATE. I I I

women toiled up and down the steep road, carrying boxes andportmanteaus on their shapely heads. But during my time thatrailway line was built which now carries the traveler by daring

gradients up the black slopes of those beautiful hills, twisting

and turning backwards and forwards, among the groves ofbamboo, teak, and banyan. At the top of the highlands wasa great rest station, near Khandala, where the ponderous engines

were cleaned and recoaled for the inland journey to Poona, orthrough Kampoolee to the coast. Very picturesque are the

Indian railways, with the names of the stations painted in three

different characters; the long hedges of aloe, prickly pear, and

milk bush: the green parrots and long-tailed shrikes perching

on the telegraph wires: the villages and village people seenupon the way, and the chattering crowd of passengers taken up

and put down at every station. It was an astonishing socialphenomenon how quickly and gladly the Hindoos took to the“fire-carriage.” Even the Brahman priests decided — fortunately for the companies and the Government, which had guar

anteed interest — that pilgrimages might be performed bymeans of third and fourth class carriages, so that the popu

lation joyfully used the line, and many natives sought employ

ment upon it,

quickly acquiring the knowledge and habits of

Western working men.

Now to understand the hard fate of my respected chief, some

thing ought to be known about the ways of railway people with

their engines. Little do most folk think when they dismount

from a train, and go about their business, what a deal of labor

has to be gone through “to groom and to stable" that iron

steed which has brought them so swiftly and safely. Theengine exteriorly appears little affected by the journey, but

when the driver has finished his trip, he must take her to thecoaling stage, and will not leave her there, if a good man, without thoroughly inspecting a

ll

her machinery. He enters her in

the repair book, and if anything has to be done, such as washing out the boiler, he must write that down. Next, the washing

out man must blow all the steam off, and let all the water out

from the iron stomach of

the “Fire Horse,” and then she ought

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to stand for six hours to cool, before new coke and coal are put

upon the tender, and fresh water into the boiler. Also the“bar boy” must creep through the fire-hole door with torchlamp and scraper, to put the fire bars in their proper places,

and to clear the fire-box and the arch of ‘clinkers' and ashes.

Then the “cleaner' with cotton waste, oil, and tallow, mustrough wipe the ‘motion,’ clean the wheels and the bottom ofthe boiler, as well as the fire box, both back and front, thechimney, smoke box, and door: and afterwards the framing.Lastly, the bright work must be burnished with bath brick andwater, and rubbed with a dry cloth till the brass is like gold, andthe copper like sunshine. It takes eight to ten hours to cleanand “fettle' an engine properly, and then the ‘turner' examines, coals, and puts ‘her' away, each engine standing in it

s

stall, like a harnessed horse, ready for the driver when he comes

again to take charge of

the ‘monster.” At that time the enginewill be in steam for him, the fire having been lighted two hours

before his arrival; and these men get to know their engines andthe ways o

f

them better than a carman knows his carthorse, or

a skipper his smack. Engines differ in their behavior quite as

much as horses or ships, and the custom was, and to a great

extent is still, to entrust an Indian locomotive only to the white

man's hands. It needs indeed a courage as iron as the metallic

Leviathan itself— although that courage becomes at last mechanical — to grapple with the fierce strength and fiery moods

of

these creations of

man's ingenuity. But subordinate posts

of

course are and were filled by natives, especially in the cleaning sheds, and a slight oversight on the part of a Mahratta ‘barboy' cost the lives of my old chief, and of many others beside.

He was to travel down by the night express from Poona onimportant official business, and had with him indeed our lastreports on the Condition of Education in the Deccan. Full of

life, full of honor, full of high and useful plans for the intellec

tual good of

the country, which was then rapidly recovering fromthe tumult of

the Great Mutiny, he took his seat in the comfort

able first-class carriage, protected by a double roof against the

heat of

the sun in the daytime, and luxuriously fitted for sleeping

The ENGINE OF FATE. II 3

accommodation by night. To provide something less businesslike than the Reports, he had taken with him a French novel,

and the last number of ‘The Quarterly Review.’ But perhaps,

who knows? he had some presentiment that this was to be hislast journey. We had been conversing not very long before

about Indian astrology, which is,

of course, entirely believed in

by the people of Hindostan, and indeed reduced to an

exact

science. In my own college there were no such things as cer

tificates of

birth. Every student brought with him upon admis

sion a janma patra, or “natal paper' in which was representedthe aspect o

f

the stars when he

commenced existence, with various calculations o

f ‘houses,’ ‘planets,’ ‘ascensions,' and ‘trines,'

displaying the days which would be lucky and unlucky forhim, and when it would be well to commence studies, to

marry, to travel, and to buy or

sell. Idle as it appears to

the Western mind the respect paid to these papers of

the

‘Joshi' is very deep in India, and over and over again astonishing instances have occurred o

f

correct predictions and timely

warnings resulting from them. Edward Howard had been going

into the subject a little, and had caused his own horoscope to

be drawn, not altogether to his satisfaction, as he laughingly

said, since the old ‘Joshi' had told him to be careful about a

certain date and locality, with other particulars which escapemy memory. Truly a ‘glassy essence' is human life, when to

such a man, on such important business, in possession of

such

a plenitude of physical and intellectual power, the casual mis

take ofa careless native could be the touch of

the finger of

Yama, God of Death.

What happened was this. A certain heavy engine had beenbrought into the rest station o

n

the top of

the Ghats, where

she had been cleaned, and coaled, and oiled, and put into steam

to go on the upline to Poona. One of

the last things to do is

to see that the regulator works in good order, without any indications o

f leaking, for if there be, the engine will show it when

at rest, with the cylinder cocks open. The hapless native who

gave the last polishing touch on the foot-plate, must have setthe regulator open, after the boiler had been filled up. The

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tender brake had been taken off in order to move her to the

coalstage, and not put on again; and the locomotive was ininstead of out of gear. So, charged to be the instrument offate, that night she moved quickly out from the shed, and took

the open points on to the main line. The pointsman saw anengine go slowly by his box, and supposed it was being trottedout for a run to fill the boiler, as is often done when the line is

clear. He was wondering why she did not return, when the

driver coming for his engine found she was gone. The full horror of the situation swiftly broke upon their minds. Here was

a ponderous locomotive, with fires newly lighted, boiler full,

furnace in quick draught, and regulator open going away faster

and faster upon a down grade towards the express train coming

upon the same metals westward. It was inevitable that shewould tear along, gathering fresh speed at every mile, until she

dashed into the utterly unwarned engine of the passenger train

from Poona. Telegraphic communication was not perfect in

those days, but there were means of conveying signals, and theaffrighted officials made use of them to send a message eastwardto an intermediate station in some such words as these : “loose

engine running away, main line, no driver; throw her off the

line if possible with sleepers, trucks, or anything.” And theanswer came back: “Too late. Engine just passed, fifty milesan hour. Must run into the express.” And there in the Indiannight, the people at Lanowlie waited in horror and dismay,knowing, as plainly as if they stood at the spot, how the fugi

tive engine was thundering and flaring down the long incline,

racing under the unseen fingers of Fate as no human driver

would have dared to send her along; while impelled by thesame resistless hand of Destiny, the crowded Indian train,

loaded with precious and innocent lives, and among them that

of my unfortunate chief, was swiftly laboring onwards to meetthe runaway. No more awful interval of terror could well beimagined than thus to know how infallibly the catastrophe waspreparing, and how utterly helpless on this side and on that,

everybody was to make the slightest effort to avert the deadly

crash.

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the ENGINE OF FATE. II 5

It came at the point that had been calculated. Flying rounda curve, the driver of the express suddenly saw in front of himthe furious runaway engine, and almost before he could touchthe brakes — which were afterwards found reversed— and shutoff his steam, the mad truant smashed into the train, killing it

s

driver, who did not leap like the fireman,—shattering bothlocomotives into a chaos o

f ruin, and hurling off the line carriage after carriage o

f

the Poona train in a frightful confusion,

of

twisted metal work, splintered wood, and bleeding men and

women. Under the fragments of the first class coach my hap

less friend was found, his head crushed almost out of recogni

tion, and “The Quarterly Review' in his hand, half severed by

the flange ofa wheel. They talk still along that line of the

fatal night when the God of

Death rode the runaway engine, and

killed so many people with the ‘firehorse’ of the “Feringhee."SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.

THE legend of St. Jerome takes up

the prophecy of

the millenium andforetells, with the Cumaean Sibyl, and with Isaiah, a day when the Fear o

f

Man shall be laid in benediction, not enmity, on inferior beings, when they

shall not hurt nor destroy in all

the Holy Mountain, and the Peace of theEarth shall be a

s far removed from its present sorrow, as the present

gloriously animate universe from the nascent desert, whose deeps were theplace o

f dragons, and its mountains, domes of

fire. Of that day knoweth

no man; but the Kingdom of

God is already come to those who have

tamed in their own hearts what was rampant of

the lower nature, and have

learned to cherish what is lovely and human, in the wandering children of

the clouds and fields. — RUSKIN.

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36irthbap ſnformation ano Qailp Biowice for(II)arch.

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Babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and indeed ifthey could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babiesat particular epochs. “Romola.”— GEORGE ELIOT.

1. Thursday. It is an unfavorable day, so be guarded in allmatterS.

Your anniversary is an unfavorable one, and therewill be much that will occur to cause anxiety. Disappointments are in order, financial losses, changes and home difficulties. Be guarded at a

ll times, and do

not seek to enlargeyour affairs.

2. Friday. It is somewhat favorable for journeys, writings

and to visit.

You have an active year before you, and some changes

or journeys of importance are indicated, also sickness, and

you will do well to guard your health at all

times. Somehome additions are probable, and there may b

e

some socialadvancements.

3. Saturday. It is an excellent day in general. Be up and

doing.

You are favored this coming year, and matters should improve with you in the main. Some agreeable changes arespoken o

f,

and you will journey as well. Slight financial ad

vances, and help from influential persons are shown. Takeevery advantage presented.

4. Sunday. It is a moderately good day. Rest.

Your coming year will be an active, and to a great extent an

eventful one. Changes, additions and interruptions are spokenof, and your affairs will be in a constant whirl most of the time.Be guarded in money matters, and embrace your opportunities.

5. Monday. It is favorable for all

business purposes.

You have a favorable year before you, and your affairs in

general should increase. You will be steady in your movements, and in your general affairs. Some gain from elderlyfriends and associates is spoken of.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, MARCH. I 17

6. Tuesday. Look sharp today in all matters.Much care is needed this coming year in al

l

your affairs to

make both ends meet. Look well to sickness, and be guarded

in all financial affairs. Be careful as to what you attach yourname to, and in making promises.

7. Wednesday. It is an evil day, so be guarded in all

matters.

Your anniversary is an unfavorable one and there will bemuch that will occur to cause anxiety as the year is passing.Financial losses, danger from litigation, fire and theft, with unfavorable changes. Seek the advice of a careful astrologer.

8. Thursday. It is not over good today.

You will need to exercise great care as the year is passing to

prevent disappointments and losses. Be careful of your mental

faculties, and guard your expressions, and what you turn yourmind to. This year marks a turning point in your career.

9. Friday. It is somewhat favorable, but postpone jour

neys, and guard your health.Both good and evil are the harbingers o

f

the year to come.You will be in active surroundings, with changes in your home,social and business affairs. Be guarded a

t

all

times in matters

of

sickness. It would not be surprising if a bereavement enteredyour circle.

IO. Saturday. It is a favorable day for general affairs.Your coming year, while in the main a quiet one, seems to

promise an improvement over the past twelve months. Somefavors will come to you, and a benefit is indicated through yourown endeavors. Be alive to your opportunities, and be hopeful and expectant.

II. Sunday. It is an evil day, and it is well it is Sunday.Your coming year bodes much trouble for you, and disappointments seem to be the order o

f

the day. Hometroubles, difficulties in business affairs, and sickness. Guardagainst fire and theft, and restrain your pleasures.

12. Monday. It is favorable today for business, changes,writings and journeys.

This anniversary is an improvement over the past one, andmatters in general should better themselves. Some additionalinterests are spoken of, financial advancements, and pleasantchanges or journeys.

II 8 THE SPHINX.

13. Tuesday. Be careful today.

Considerable trouble is spoken of during your next year oflife, and there will be many disappointments in evidence. Beguarded in writings, agreements, promises, and changes.

14. Wednesday. It is an excellent day for all matters.You are favored in many ways this coming year, and yourgeneral affairs should increase. Some addition in finances areindicated, and you will receive favors from superiors. Socialadvancement and changes are indicated.

15. Thursday. It is a very evil day, be careful of accidentsand losses.

Your anniversary is an evil one in many ways, and misfortunes will crowd upon you at certain periods of the year. Beware of accidents, fire and robbery, and avoid litigation anddisputes. You will do well to seek an astrologer's advice.

16. Friday. Today is again unfavorable.

You are not favored this coming year, and great care will beneeded to hold your affairs together. Make no additions orchanges, and look well to financial matters, and to writings andagreements. Be careful of your health as well.

17. Saturday. It is moderately fair, but avoid writings andchanges.

Both good and evil is indicated this coming year, and withcare much can be averted that otherwise would bring sorrow.Look to sickness, especially by those advanced in years, andguard carefully a

ll

matters of writings and promises. The year

is an important one.

18. Sunday. It is not important. Rest.Your coming year seems somewhat quiet, and matters willpass along without much change. Cares and disappointmentswill be in evidence however, and all financial matters should beguarded.

19. Monday. It is somewhat favorable, but avoid contentions.

Your anniversary cannot be considered favorable, and youwill need to exercise care in all

your affairs. Financial difficulties, and some possible injury o

r accident, and trouble from lawand disputes. Be guarded in a

ll changes, for with observanceand care, much can be saved you.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, MARCH. I IQ

20. Tuesday. It is somewhat favorable for business, but beguarded in all social affairs.You have an active year confronting you, and one that contains both good and evil in it

s promises. Changes in yourhome and in business matters with some advancement. Care

is urged in expenditure, and additions to your affairs should begiven thought.

21. Wednesday. It is somewhat favorable, but be guarded

in your expressions.

Some favorable conditions are promised for your comingyear, and if you are not over-careless in financial matters, o

r

stubborn in holding to a losing venture, you may escape withfair results. Make no additions, but look to what you are nowengaged in.

22. Thursday. It is a good day for all matters, social or

business, also changes, journeys, calls, or

amusements.

You are favored this coming year, and your interests willincrease, while more easier matters will be in evidence. Financial advantages are spoken of, with help from superiors, andthrough your own exertions. Some journeys and changes willcome as well.

23. Friday. Look sharp today in all your affairs.You have a trying year before you, with many disappointments. Look well to disputes, law matters, and guard againstaccident and home disturbances. Let well-enough alone, andendeavor to hold what you have.

24. Saturday. It is a very evil day.Your anniversary is fraught with some anxious conditionsthis year, and unless the greatest care is observed, misfortuneswill crowd thick and fast. Sickness, bereavement, home difficulties, and heavy expenses are apparent.

25. Sunday. It is generally favorable today.Your coming year is somewhat favorable in the main, andwith care and attention on your part, the ending should show a

balance in your favor. Some social advantages, and changes in

your domestic life are indicated, with some possible additions.

26. Monday. It is a good day.An active and eventful year confronts you, and there will bechanges, additions, journeys, and many new matters coming up

as it advances. The time will be favorable in the main, and

I 20 THE SPHinx.

with close attention to your business and financial matters, andcare in your pleasures, the year will end to your advantage.

27. Tuesday. It is a fair day.Your coming year is an active one, with changes, journeys,and additions. Some home disturbances are indicated and itwill be well for you to remember, that the way of the transgressor is hard. Be guarded in writings and agreements.

28. Wednesday. It is rather favorable today in general.Look well to your coming year in all financial matters, andavoid speculative ventures, new undertakings and matters calling for expenditure. With close attention to these matters, theyear should show a balance in your favor at the close.

29. Thursday. It is an evil day. Be careful of journeysand accidents.

Your anniversary portends grave troubles, and the utmostcare will be required to hold your affairs together. Notoriety,publicity, possible accident to your person, with danger fromfire and theft. Look well to social and home matters, and beguarded in your pleasures.

3O. Friday. It is a favorable day.You have some advantages as the year is passing, and therewill be some favors shown you in both business and social ways.You must guard against sickness however, and look carefully tohome matters. It will be an eventful year in some respects.

31. Saturday. It is an excellent day.Your anniversary seems to be favorable for you on the whole,and your affairs in general should increase. Some financial outlay is indicated, though such does not appear to be a loss.Changes of a favorable nature are spoken o

f.

ASTOR.

The above birthday information is for those whose birthdays occur thismonth regardless o

f

the year and the hour. Any one born, for instance, onMarch 2

5 will experience during the year some of

the conditions mentioned on that day.

The daily advice is worth considering and watching, and if followedwill bring quicker and surer results. On evil days always keep still, foreven if you try to push matters you will find eventually they will not amount

to anything.The good or bad fortune of a person on any particular day depends

mainly on

the particular conditions operating in the nativity, and the red

or

black degrees the Moon is transiting in the speculum.— Ed.

FATALITY. I2 I

jatality.

IN answer to the question, “Can people avert or avoiddanger or disaster predicted in the hand?” I answer, thatdecidedly I believe they can; but I say just as decidedlythat they rarely if ever do. I know hundreds of cases in myown experience, where people were given accurate warnings

which they did not realize till too late. The most remarkableexample of this which I can recall was the case of a womanwell known in London Society. I warned her of an accidentcaused by animals which would make her infirm for the rest of

her life, and which would happen at the very point of age shehad then reached. She promised that she would be careful

and departed. A week later one dull foggy night she orderedher horses. Again she got a warning, this time through herhusband, who begged her not to go out, as the horses were

restive and the night bad. The horses were brought roundand with them the last warning; her coachman had beentaken seriously ill, and a substitute had to take his place. Eventhis did not deter her, and she started. The coachman could

have gone four different ways to reach his destination, butstrange to say, he took the most unlikely and drove through

Bond Street. It was in doing this that the most remarkablepoint in this example was reached. The man lost control ofthe horses; they took fright and dashed in on the sidewalk;

the carriage was smashed against a lamp post, and by an extraordinary coincidence the occupant was carried unconscious intomy hall. I am sorry to say that the prediction has proved onlytoo true; she has never recovered from her injuries and never

will. The above is only one example among many that couldbe cited to show that we rarely if ever profit by warnings, nomatter how they are given.

CHEIRO.

I 2.2 THE SPHINX.

Che Elmerican (5rammar of £13trology.

CHAPTER XII. CoNTINUED.— THE ASPECTS OF VENUS.

Venus in conjunction or in any aspect to the SunGives a fondness for company, success in matters of clothing, jewelry or apparel, and a taste for music and dancing.

Venus in conjunction or afflicted by Mars

Makes one fond of pleasure and company, generous and

careless with money, and void of self-respect.

Venus in good aspect to MarsMakes one fond of company, pleasure and society of allkinds, also free and careless.

Venus in conjunction or good aspect with }upiter

Is rather favorable for success, but the native will be very

fond of dress and ornament, and spends much money

thereon; with females it inclines to prudence and chastity.

Venus afflicting Jupiter

The native squanders his money on dress, ornament andwomen, and often lives beyond his means; is anxious to

have everything of the very best, whether he can afford itor not, and the same with a female.

Venus in conjunction or afflicted by SaturnBrings disappointment in courtship or marriage, griefthrough females; depraved tastes, deceit, hypocrisy,

especially in religion. This applies more to males thanto females.

Venus in good aspect to SaturnGives success in courtship; steady attachment to wife andfamily; acute feelings, soon moved to pity or tears; with

a female it denotes care, prudence, chastity and sincerity.

Venus in conjunction with Herschel

The native is generally a good actor or musician, excelling

in the fine arts, but very fond of pleasure; he is a favorite

with young women, and often forms an illicit attachmentafter marriage.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. I 23

Venus in evil aspect to Herschel

Causes trouble and jealousy in courtship or marriage and

often the dislike of women, also immoral attachments andhe wastes his substance on worthless women.

Venus in good aspect to HerschelBrings success with the opposite sex, by whom he is muchbeloved; skill in music; and very refined if Herschel or

Venus be dignified in the map.

Venus in good aspect to Neptune

Makes the native refined, fond of the arts and sciences andinterested in the occult.

Venus afflicted by Neptune

In a male nativity causes disappointment in courtship ormarriage; brings low associates. In a female nativity,danger of seduction at an early age, or an intrigue aftermarriage, or an early marriage and subsequent separation.

THE ASPECTS OF THE SUN.

The Sun in conjunction or afflicted by MarsThe native is bold, intrepid, rash and firm, headstrong,determined, quick in anger, yet generous.

The Sun in good aspect to MarsThe native is generous, bold, noble and free; possessesgreat bodily strength and a good constitution; he is muchrespected by his masters and superiors and meets rapid

advancement. To a female it means marriage to a verystrong and high-minded person.

The Sun afflicted by } upiter

Causes loss of money and much ill fortune in life, thenative not infrequently becoming involved in loss o

f money

which should warn him against lending or becoming secu

rity. He will squander his money and probably becomepoor at the end of

life. To a female it gives a poor andunfortunate but good husband.

The Sun in conjunction or good aspect to jupiter

Success and gain of money and fame; powerful friends andhelp from them; good health and long life. To a female

a happy and honorable marriage.

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The Sun in conjunction or afflicted by SaturnDeranges the health, especially if the Sun or Saturn beoccidental. It also shows loss of business and discredit butits chief effect is on the health. With females, it deniesmarriage or delays it very much, according to the natureof the sign in which the aspect occurs.

The Sun in good aspect to Saturn

The native is steady, persevering and generally sober andhas gain and success in life. To females it means latemarriage or with elderly persons.

The Sun in conjunction with Herschel

Denotes success followed by the most crushing misfortune,popularity and unpopularity and a life full of strange vicissitudes. For a female it is very bad, causing early disgrace

and a most unlucky marriage.

The Sun in good aspect to HerschelBrings benefits from strangers and elderly persons and success in any employment, especially public or governmental.

It causes females to form strong attachments and in manycases an early marriage.

The Sun in bad aspect to Herschel

Causes discredit and loss through powerful enemies, public

companies, or railways. With a female it is similar to theconjunction.

[To be continued.]

THERE is a prophetic power in your own heart, known to the Greeks,

known to the Jews, known to the apostles and knowable by you. If it isnow silent to you, do not despise it by tranquility under that privation; ifit speaks to you, do not despise it by disobedience.

— RUSKIN, VAL D'ARNo.

NOTES AND QUERIES. I 25

hotes and Queries.

R. A. Converse inquires if any of the old-time astrologerswho read THE SPHINX can inform him how to locate the

“terms” in a natal figure according to the method employed by

Worsdale in his Celestial Philosophy? He says, page 140,

“The fact is,

they are those places where the benefics and

malefics claim their greatest influence in the zodiacal and mundane circles, and are found by adjusting the difference a

s the

stars approach to or

decline from the preceding angle at birth.”

This is unintelligible to me. A good many examples are given

in the thirty nativities contained in the book, that is,

the

location of

these terms are pointed out, but no further clue furnished a

s to the method used in locating them.

J. R. F. says: Can you tell me to whom to apply to learnthe hour o

f birth of the noted confederate, General “Stonewall” Jackson? Probably few of your readers are aware that

when a young man he was a student of astrology and put great

confidence in Zadkiel. He calculated his own horoscope, andthe primary directions in accordance with the precepts of theGrammar, and discovered a certain date when h

e judged he

would be in great physical danger. He met his tragic death onthat very date. It would b

e interesting to have the hour of

birth, and see what the directions were which proved so sadly

prophetic.

[We have been unable to ascertain even the approximate time of day.

Perhaps some of

our readers can furnish the data.]

In Zadkiel's Legacy the nativity of

the Prince of Wales is

given, with a number of primary directions. The direction of

Sun conjunc. Mercury, d. d. is worked in full as an illustration

of

the method, but it is not correct. Zadkiel inadvertently took

out the semi-arc of Venus instead of Mercury, which made considerable difference in the result.

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Tletterø to the Eöitor.This magazine is not responsible for the views which may be expressed by its correspondents.

KoRATUGERE, INDIA, Dec. 30, 1899.

To the Editor of The Sphina: ;

Your kind letter of Nov. 22 to hand. I am glad you aretaking an interest in Hindu astrology, for you will not be only

earning a grand name for yourself, but also will greatly facilitate

the spread of astrological sciences in the world; and I wish youwould accept my proposition to devote the whole of my energies to English translations of Sanskrit astrological and astronomical works. I am a graduate of the Madras University anda member of various learned societies, and have the best advantages to undertake successfully this work both by my English

and Sanskrit education, and also by my belonging to the highest

class in India; viz., Brahmins, who alone are the custodiansfrom time immemorial of all the sacred literature of the land of

the Vedas.

The sciences of astrology and astronomy are almost inexhaustible and you can continue their translations as long as you

please. I shall be glad to furnish a simple book on astrologyspecially contributed to THE SPHINX, and it will be interestingand instructive.

As for the Sarwartha chuitamani translation, if you or yourcompany undertake it

,

you may print it in parts, with or with

out the Devanagari stanzas as suits your convenience and taste.

I shall be able to get you large numbers of subscribers, whenthe book has advanced a little. In the predictive portion you

have hardly any other work so elaborate in one single volume

as you have in this work. If there is the demand you say there

is for astrology in America, your company ought to comeforward and undertake grand things for you have everything“grand " in your country.

Very sincerely,

B.

SURYANARAIN Row, B.A.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 127

LONDON, ENGLAND, Feb. 5, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphina: ;

I herewith enclose a short paper bearing on the history ofastrology in the fifteenth century: not, I fear of any greatvalue, but sufficient, I hope, to show that I am a well-wisher toyour undertaking.

I remain, dear madam,Truly yours,

A. G. TRENT.

This interesting article by the author of “The Soul and the Stars,” awork that every one should read, will appear in our next.— ED.

LONDON, ENGLAND, Dec. 18, 1899.

To the Editor of The Sphina: ;

Thank you for the Christmas SPHINX which however I subscribe for. It is a well gotten up and useful magazine, and Ihope it will command a large sale as it does you much credit.I was surprised to see you have some of Mr. Smith's lettersto R. Price. The latter was my old master, and the best astrologer I ever knew or am likely to know. I had all his booksand papers, and thought I had those letters you have. I expectthey were sent away with some more papers, and if I remembercorrectly they are in a copy book." I am glad you have them.I can give you a lot of information about Price and Smith withtheir nativities, if you care for them.I much regret I cannot send you anything in time for yournext number, but I will prepare an article, (I cannot say yetwhat it will be,) and will send it you the very first chance I get.I must also advertise in THE SPHINX, for I hope it has a greatfuture before it

. Accept my kindest regards and best wishesfor the success o

f your good work, and may the coming year

double and treble the sale of your useful publication.

Yours sincerely,*The letters are in a copy book.-ED. F. RAPHAEL.

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MADRAS PRESIDENCY, INDIA, Dec. 12, 1899.

To the Editor of the Sphin.r:

Being greatly interested in astrology, I am sending you theannual subscription to THE SPHINX and will feel much obliged

if you will kindly forward me the numbers regularly.

I have the October issue and find on casually looking overit an error on page 198 line II in “The New Era,” that Mars inconjunction with Saturn cannot be in the last decanate of Gemini, but it should be Sagittarius and in opposition to Neptune

and not in conjunction; nor can Mercury come to a conjunction

with Saturn as the former retrogrades from Nov. 27.Wishing you every success,

Believe me, dear Madam,

Yours very truly,

J. H. Stoddart,Dist. Supt. of Police.

WASHINGTON, C. H. OHIO, Nov. 1, 1899.

To the Editor of the Sphinx:

You have a very valuable book, and those who want it willgive almost any price for it

,if it can be had by the first of

the

month. Your predictions are the very best I have ever seen,and hit the mark nine times out of ten.

Yours sincerely,W. E. P.

NEw York, Oct. 24, 1899.

To the Editor of

the Sphina: ;

If you can succeed in keeping THE SPHINx before the public,you will certainly show yourself an unusually clever woman."

Yours with best wishes,

J. H.

* The public will have THE SPHINx for many years to come.— Ed.

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Vol. II. APRIL, 1900. No. 3.

A Famous Predictionof

MERLIN, the British Wizard.Written above a Thousand 1 ears ago, and

relating to this Present rear, 1709.

With Explanatory Motes. By T. W. Philomath.

Last year was published a paper of predictions pre

tended to be written by one Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.,” but

the true design of it was to ridicule the art of Astrology,

and expose its professors as ignorant or impostors. Against

this imputation, Dr. Partrige hath vindicated himself in

his almanac for the present year.

For a farther vindication of

this famous art, I have

thought fit

to present the world with the following

prophecy. The original is said to be of

the famous Merlin, who lived about a thousand years ago: and the following translation is two hundred years old; for it seems to

be written near the end of Henry the Seventh's reign. I

*The Predictions for the year 1708by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., will appear in our next.— ED.

129

I 3O THE SPHINx.

found it in an old edition of Merlin's prophecies; imprinted at London by johan Haukyns, in the year 1530,

page 39. I set it down word for word in the old orthography, and shall take leave to subjoin a few explanatory

notes.

5even amo Cen aboyo to nine,

Of fraunce bit woe top3 is the 3igne,Campg rivere twog patro3&n,

TUlaſhe gang wetyng 5bočg me bogen.

Qſben comptb foottbe, 3.cb unoctatonoe,

from Coune of 5toffe to fattyn Lombe,

Tim betoic Cbiſtan, WOC the morne

CO iftaunce, that evetø be waſ botne.

Cºban 3ball the fp3b2 bewegle big JöO336 ;

fºot 3ball grin Jöctryºg make up the Logge.1}onge 5pmncle 3ball again migcattye :

Žino ſºlotway 3 ptyo again 3ball mattep.

Tino from the Cree wbere JBIogumg tele,

TRipe fruit 3ball come, and all ig welc.TRéaumg 3ball Oaunce bombe in bombe,

Fino it 3ball be merge in olò $nglombe.

Qºbcm olò 3ng[Onoe 3ball be n0 mote,jºino no ſºyan 3ball be 3Otie therefore.CŞergon 3ball bave three bedeg agagne,

CíII ſoapgburge makptb them but twayne.

ExPLANATORY Notes.

§even amo Cen. This line describes the year whenthese events shall happen. Seven and ten makes seventeen,

which I explain seventeen hundred, and this number addedto nine, makes the year we are now in ; for it must beunderstood of the natural year, which begins the first ofjanuary.

Caymg Ryºvere twyg, &c. The River Thames frozen

twice in one year, so as men to walk on it,is a very signal

A FAMOUS PREDICTION. I31

accident; which perhaps hath not fallen out for severalhundred years before, and is the reason why some astrologers have thought that this prophecy could never be fulfilled, because they imagined such a thing would neverhappen in our climate.

from Coune of 5totte, &c. This is a plain designation of the Duke of Marlborough; one kind of stuff usedto fatten land is called Marle, and everybody knows thatBorough is a name for a town; and this way of expres

sion is after the usual dark manner of old astrologicalpredictions.

Cben 3ball the fggbe, &c. By the Fish is understoodthe Dolphin of France, as their kings' eldest sons are called:'Tis here said, he shall lament the loss of the Duke ofBurgundy, called the Bosse, which is an old English wordfor hump-shoulder, or crook-back, as that Duke is known tobe; and the prophecy seems to mean, that he shall beovercome or slain. By the Green Berrys in the next line

is meant the young Duke of Berry, the Dauphin's thirdson, who shall not have valor or fortune enough to supplythe loss of his eldest brother.

l?oung $gmmele, &c. By Symnel is meant the pretended Prince of Wales, who if he offers to attempt anything against England, shall miscarry as he did before.Lambert Symnel is the name of a young man noted in ourhistories for personating the son (as I remember) of Edwardthe Fourth.

Amo Horways pryo, &c. I cannot guess who ismeant by Norway's Pride; perhaps the reader may, as wellas the sense of the two following lines.

TRéaumg 3ball, &c. Reaums, or, as the word is now,Realms, is the old name for Kingdoms. And this is a very

I32 THE SPHINX.

plain prediction of our happy union, with the felicities thatshall attend it

. It is added, that Old England shall be no

more, and yet no

man shall be sorry for it. And indeed,

properly speaking, England is now no more, for the whole

island is one kingdom, under the name of

Britain.

Gergom gball, &c. This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt. Geryon is said to

have been a King of

Spain, whom Hercules slew. It was

a fiction of

the poets, that he had three heads, which the

author says he shall have again. That is,

Spain shall have

three kings; which is now wonderfully verified. Forbesides the King o

f Portugal, which properly is part of

Spain, there are now two rivals for Spain; Charles and Philip.

But Charles being descended from the Count of Hapsburgh,

founder of

the Austrian family, shall soon make those

heads but two ; by

overcoming Philip, and driving himout o

f

Spain.

Some of

these predictions are already fulfilled; and it ishighly probable the rest may b

e in due time. And, Ithink, I have not forced the words by my explication intoany other sense than what they will naturally bear. If this

be granted, I am sure it must be also allowed, that the

author, whoever he was, was a person of extraordinary

sagacity; and that astrology brought to such perfection as

this, is by

no

means an art to be despised; whatever Mr.

Bickerstaff, or

other merry gentlemen are pleased to think.

As to the tradition of

these lines having been written in

the original by Merlin; I confess I lay not much weight

upon it.

But it is enough to justify their authority, that

the book from whence I have transcribed them, was printed17o years ago, as appears b

y

the title-page. For the satis

A FAMOUS PREDICTION. I 33

faction of any gentleman, who may be either doubtful of

the truth, or curious to be informed, I shall give order tohave the very book sent to the printer of this paper, with

directions to let anybody see it that pleases; because, Ibelieve it is pretty scarce.

THE CHALDEANS OF ROME NOT IMPOSTORs.

“Now it is well known that Caesar, with the assistance of a celebratedChaldean astronomer from Egypt, called Sosigenes, ascertained the winter solstice to take place on the 25th Dec. at 30 minutes past one inthe morning. And it is a striking circumstance that he appears from theexpression of Columella to have availed himself of the reckoning of theChaldeans, whom my reader will recollect I have shown to have comewith Abrahim or the Brahmin from India and whom our historians affect

to treat with contempt as having become in the time of Caesar, mere

charlatans: but who were, as appears from the facts above named, inreality the only persons who had a sufficient knowledge of astronomy tocorrect the calendar, which had fallen into the utmost confusion. . . It isworthy of note that the persons employed by Caesar were the Chaldeans,

and that these mere fortune tellers or conjurers, as our priests call them,

were so well informed that they could fix the time of the solstice to half an

hour—to half past one in the morning. It is evident that these Calideior Chaldeans or Mathematici or Freemasons were then the best calculators and astronomers in the world. . . Like Columella I have calculatedroughly and by round numbers, but this was not the way the Chaldeanmagicians reckoned. They formed their calculations to a minute—tothirty minutes past one in the morning—consequently they must have

known that it must be necessary to intercalate one day and a part of a dayevery six hundred years: and this I have no doubt that they did, wherever they had the regulation of the festivals in their Judean, secret,masonic Xpmatian festivals.”

GODFREY HIGGINS.

I34 the SPhinx.

Hn Italian Qration on H3trology in thejifteenth Century.

Although but few of the writings of Gregorius Tiphernasremain, or at least have been published, he has an honorableplace among the Italian scholars who aided in the revival ofletters in the fifteenth century. He appears to have taught inmost of the chief cities of Italy from about 1440 to about 1465,

and to have died during the pontificate of Paul II.

(1464-71).The oration on astrology o

f which we are about to give anaccount was delivered somewhere between these dates, a

t

what

place or

on what occasion does not appear. As, however,

there is no allusion to the presence of any exceptional person

or body of persons, it may be supposed to be addressed to

his ordinary hearers. It was never published until last year,when it was printed from a manuscript in the Vienna libraryby Professor Karl Mullner, in his “Reden und Briefe Italienischer Humanisten" (Vienna, 1899).After a brief exordium, Tiphernas proceeds to discuss some

of

the more ordinary objections to astrology, such as the dif

ficulty of ascertaining the precise moment of birth, the case of

twins, and the errors and inconsistencies of astrologers. Hav

ing answered these, he passes to the history of astrology, which

he declares to have originated in Egypt by favor of the perpetual serenity o

f

the weather and the opportunities for study

enjoyed by the Egyptian priesthood. From Egypt it wasbrought into Greece, and reached perfection under Ptolemy, to

whose consummate work nothing can ever be added; perhaps

an indirect way of expressing Tiphernas' disbelief in the Arabian

astrologers. He next mentions Chaldea, but does not make it

clear whether he considers the Chaldeans to have received

their astrology from the Egyptians or

to have discovered it

independently. He is,

however, certain that the Jews learnedastrology from the Chaldeans, and quotes a Jewish writerwhom he calls Rabbi Moses for proofs o

f

the attention which

AN ITALIAN ORATION ON ASTROLOGY. I 35

Moses paid to the science. Moses, says the Rabbi, so pitched

the tabernacle that the triplicity of Leo should regard the north,

in token that a northern city under the dominion of Leo (Rome)should rule the world. He took care to deliver the Law during

a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, emblems of religion andstability. The seven feet of the candlestick in Solomon'stemple denoted the seven planets, and the middle foot waslarger than the rest in honor of the sun, which the Chaldeans

did not, like the Egyptians, place between the spheres of theMoon and Mercury, but in the center of the planets. If thiscould be taken to mean that the Chaldeans believed that the

planets revolved round the Sun, an opinion not entertained inTiphernas' days, it would be a remark of the highest interest.The Rabbi further declared that the idolatry of the Israelites

was star-worship, that Baal denoted the ascendant, and Astaroththe lord of the midheaven. This leads Tiphernas to have aword with the divines who attack astrology as irreligious, from

which he passes to its serviceableness as affording a rationalinterpretation of ancient Greek mythology, whose apparentscandals, he contends, arise from the misinterpretation of astrological expressions. When, for example, Jupiter is said tohave begotten a multitude of children, the meaning is thatmany distinguished men have been born with his planet in theascendant. AEneas is called the son of Venus for the same

reason. The story of Mars and Venus being caught in a netby Vulcan refers to the frequent conjunctions of these planets

“near the star of Vulcan,” which must be supposed to denotethe sun. Mercury is called hermaphrodite on account of hisambiguous quality as malefic or benefic, according to the nature

of the planets with which he is conjoined. The wars and quar

rels of the gods are to be understood by the cross aspects ofthe planets. Endymion was an astronomer, so were Herculesand Atlas. From classical mythology Tiphernas turns to classical literature, and easily proves that the poets cannot be understood without acquaintance with astronomy and astrology.

The oration of Tiphernas is the more interesting as thespeaker was not himself a professional astrologer, but an

136 The SPHINX.

elegant and erudite classical scholar. He had no motive forraising his voice in favor of astrology, except a conviction of

its truth, and although it cannot be said that the arguments by

which he defends it are very much to the purpose, their very

weakness implies a conviction that the sympathies of

his hearers

will be with him. Had he expected to meet with any formidable dissent among his audience, he would have been much

more argumentative and controversial. Astrology in his timeoccupied a vantage ground which it has never lost; then thegeneral presumption was in it

s favor, now it is quite the otherway. All mystical and fanciful arguments for astrology havebeen reputed by the progress o

f physical science, while theargument from experience has been fortified day by day. In

the days of Tiphernas an astrologer could afford to neglect this

argument, it is now the only one of any value. There is

evidence enough and more than enough to convince honestskeptics, if they could but be persuaded to examine it

:

but

there is little probability of this happening until astrologers ontheir part, evince the same rigor in verifying and authenticating the facts they adduce, that would b

e expected from the

students of any other physical science.A. G. TRENT.

MATTER UNREAL, VISIONARY.

Newton was of opinion that if sufficient pressure were put upon theearth, it would b

e compressed into the size ofa globe an inch in diameter.

And if to that size, why not to that of a pea, and from that to a grain of

mustard seed, and from that to an invisible particle of

dust. Newton virtually denied the existence o

f

matter as substance. Nothing remains but

a congerie of

laws. “If the ultimate particles of matter are mathematicalpoints,” a

s

Newton assumed, or

resolvable according to Faraday, into“points of force,” it follows that if the particles of which the earth is composed were made to touch each other, the whole earth would b

e

reduced to

a mathematical point. And who can show that this hypothesis—that thelaws of

matter are in fact all that there is of

matter— is not scientificallycorrect 2 EPES SARGENT.

PEOPLE WHO MAKE MONEY. I 37

Neople (Ulbo (Dake (Doneg.

I AM not about to talk of those employed at the Mint andAssay Offices, nor of those gentlemen of industry whose business it is to make base metal ring true, but of a few big capitalists and millionaires who, in one form or another, have “made

their pile,” as the saying is,

whether by their own industry andgenius o

r by hereditary succession to property of

cumulativevalue.

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of

the great

wealth of

the family recently bereft of one of its

famous heads,

was born in Staten Island on May 27, 1794, and died in

New York Jan. 4,

1877. At his birth the Moon was in theearly degrees o

f

Taurus (the hour of

birth is not known) andhad the benefic trine aspect o

f Jupiter, the Greater Fortune,

in the acquisitive and ambitious sign Capricornus. But the

Moon was also in opposition to Neptune, and at

his death in1877 this malefic planet was on the radical place o

f

the Moonhaving completed half it

s great revolution through the Signs.

At that time also we find Saturn in square aspect to the Sun'sRadical place, and Mars in square to the Sun's Progressive

place. The indications of prosperity in the Commodore's horoscope are vested in the positions o

f

the Moon and Jupiter, theformer being in the Sign of Substance and Wealth, and Jupiterbeing in that o

f

Eminence and Ambition, the two bodies being

in trine aspect.

Millionaire Tyson, was born at Composture, near Sydney,

Australia, on the 11th of April, 1823, the Moon being in the

beginning of Taurus, (as in the case of Vanderbilt) in trine

Aspect to Uranus and Neptune in the Sign Capricornus, andapproaching the conjunction o

f

Saturn. The Sun was in Aries,

along with Mars, very powerfully situated, and Jupiter was in

Gemini. Here the Sun and Mars in the Sign Aries are very

significant, because Tyson made his fortune in sheep farming

principally, and also by agriculture, as shown by the position of

138 THE SPHINx.

the Moon in aspect to three planets in Earthy signs. It isworthy of comment that Vanderbilt began his money-making

success in conveying and trading vegetable and farm produce

(Moon trine to Jupiter from earthy signs).

The Duke of Westminster, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, was born

Oct. 13, 1825. He won the Derby four times, and during

the period of his associations with the paddock he made aboutA300,000, or one and a half million dollars. He had immenseproperties in England, principally in London, and the Cheshireand Flintshire counties. Grosvenor House is universally lookedupon as the headquarters of the charitable world, a distinctionwhich it was easy for the benevolent Duke to sustain. Atbirth the Sun was in Libra in trine to Saturn. The Moon

was in Scorpio in sextile aspect to Uranus and Neptune

in Capricorn, and in sextile to Jupiter, Venus and Mars inVirgo. Again we find the Earthy element strong, no less than

five planets being found in Earthy signs. The conjunction ofMars and Jupiter gave that accent of extreme generosity by

which the Duke endeared himself to thousands in every grade

of life, and won the respectful regard of even the most pronounced of Socialist “dead-levellers.”

These cases point to a uniform influence of the Moon in

favorable aspect to a planet or planets in Earthy signs asoperative in producing much wealth. Doubtless the indicationswould be considerably enhanced by the local or mundame positions of the planets in each case, for it is certainly the factthat, although many persons the world over would be born on

the dates cited, the influences would, at some particular hour,be so concentrated and determined as to evolve the millionaire.

This is one more evidence of the vast importance of studying

mundane aspects and positions. Those occurring in the Zodiacare, of course, significant although but general. It may benoticed in conclusion of this brief study, that President Kruger,

another successful man of great wealth, was born within threedays of the Duke of Westminster. Truly it may be said ofwealth as of greatness: “Some are born great, some achievegreatness, others have greatness thrust upon them.”

SEPHARIAL.

A SIGN OF THE TIMES. I 39

H 35ign of the Cimeg,

SURELY the blessed light spreads ! and Jupiter will not leaveScorpio, the house of occultism — for Sagittarius that of religious thought and the higher mind— in the last few days of theyear 1899, without having sown far and wide the seed of theancient wisdom, on the field of humanity. There are signs onevery side—THE SPHINX is but one,—of a great revival of interest in the most ancient and noble of the occult, indeed of the

human sciences, which has been believed in and studied by thegreatest men such as Dante, Kepler, and Goethe, the first ofwhom described it as “wisest and best and without defect.”

Indeed the ugly and envious sisters are already alarmed at theapproaching triumph of the Cinderella, whom they have so long

and maliciously suppressed, and who will yet be crowned with

a diadem, of living Light, more glorious than any that circlestheir own dull brows.

Behold a sign Old Moore's Almanac. Vox Stellarum, theoriginal, not the penny imitations, appears for 1900 with theastrologic predictions restored after a far longer sleep, than thatwhich befell the men of Ephesus in the cave on the mountain:

the preface is worth quoting: —Two hundred and two years ago, namely in the year of human redemp

tion 1698, I, Francis Moore, first issued my little Almanac. At once, andfor many years afterwards, the “Voice of THE STARs,” as decipheredby me, served as a warning to some, as a helpful friend to others, as aguide to all. But long after I had passed away from the vanities of thisearth, men thought themselves wiser than I, and published my Almanac,without these useful notes. And so for eighty years or more my voice hasbeen silent. But once more a change has come, and those features whichyear by year caused hundreds and thousands of my fellows to look uponmy words as invaluable, will once again be restored, and though in my

own person, I can no longer participate in the good work, there are thoseyet in the flesh, who know my system, and they will I do not doubt, writeonly that which is reliable, and for the good of the great human family.

I pray that it may be so.FRANCIs MooRE, Physician.

September, 1899.

I4O THE SPHINX.

Bravo! O most venerable of Almanacs, may you renewyour youth like the eagle, (scorpio) and be still evergreen,

when the descent of the New Jerusalem, gives us a new heavenand a new earth; in which man being, as at first, intuitively

capable of all knowledge will no longer require to pore over

“miserable books ”

On revient toujours a ses premiers amours, and we hope that

those who have never yet had a glimpse of

the smile of

thegreat goddess may yet be capable o

f

that divine ray and

influence. Compare with this the famous preface to the first

issue 1869 of Whitaker, which gives the right ascensions of

the planets (except the mystical ones Uranus and Neptune)

but is as ignorant of their higher meaning as most of

us

are

of

the hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing: —No attempt has here been made to peep into futurity. Predictionsrespecting the Weather, the fate o

f Kingdoms, and the fortune and death

of

Eminent Persons, are made only by those who rely upon the supersti

tion, the gullibility and the ignorance of

that imperfectly educated class

which happily is every year decreasing in number (! ?).

To which one can give no

better answer than was given to

a fool in the oldest of books: “Who is this that darkeneth

counsel by words without knowledge?”KYMRY.

THE “Old Farmer's Almanac" still hangs under the clock in nearlyevery New England kitchen. Credulous people in other sections o

f

the

country may trust a government weather bureau, if they like, but yourtrue-blue New Englander prefers to pin his faith o

n

local signs, supple

mented by the “Old Farmer's Almanac.” The success of this popularalmanac was founded o

na miracle. In the second or third year of

its

existence the proprietor, a famous mathematician and prognosticator, wasill, and the completion of that year's almanac devolved upon his son, a

graceless wag. The calculation for a certain date in July was not madeout. The young man in charge calmly predicted “snow,” and sent theedition to press. Upon the date in question snow actually fell in NewEngland, and the fame of

the “Old Farmer's Almanac" was establishedfor all time.

“I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN.” I41

“T 35aw a 35tar fall from Theaven.”

In order to understand why Merlin and Hermas should focusupon the Zodiacal Virgin (and the opposite Whale) with whichto mark the limits of our era, of Britannia's career, etc.: to

understand upon what ground their prophecies are based, we

must understand that they, being adepts in the SabaeanScience, knew the time and effect of certain phenomenon

known astrologically as the “Fall of Stars,” planets andhouses.

In this connection an absolute fact which confronts us is thatvery many of the sacred words and phrases with which ourreligions have made us familiar, as Lord, gods, angels,dragon, man, signs, gates, houses, mansions in the skies, fall,

fall of Lucifer, fall of man, etc.— are taken in toto and undisguisedly from Astrology: for instance every sign is a house,

or mansion in the skies; every sign has its Lord; every planet

and sign has its exaltation and its fall, etc.

Some thousands of years ago the planet Mercury had its

exaltation in the sign Virgo, its fall comes directly opposite

in the Whale and Fishes, or day house of Jupiter.

Again: some ten thousand years ago Jupiter had his exaltation in Cancer, and will, at an astrologically marked timehave his fall with a tremendous panic, in the sign o

f

the Goat— symbol of Pan from whom the word panic is derived.Now if

,

as in our last article asserted, Britannia takes her

nativity in part from the region of Orion and the Unicorn shecomes from the Gemini house of Mercury on the one hand, and

from the opposite, or Sagittarius house of Jupiter on the other.

At the present time both houses of Jupiter are phenomenal,filled with evil omens, and frightful with the Mene Tekel handwriting upon their walls In one house the Sun, or VernalEquinox is making it

s

Passover from the Whale and Fishes intoAquarius. In this house his sun is going down, his empirepassing away, his temple falling;— and his messenger, Mercury.

I42 THE SPHinx,

as it were like Samson, falls in and with the house of thePhilistines; while his other house, Sagittarius, is reeling under

the weight of a recent conjunction of planets such as has notoccurred before since there was a nation on earth !

Bearing in mind that Jupiter had his exaltation in Cancerwhich rules Egypt, let us turn to Ezekiel, 32d chap., where,

under synonym of Pharoah, we find this lamentation overJupiter and his Whale. So “Son of Man take up a lamentation for Pharoah, King of Egypt, and say unto him Thouart like a young lion of the nations, and thou art like a

whale in the seas . . . and when I shall put thee out- I will cover the heaven and make all the stars thereofdark . . . Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee,and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shallbrandish my sword before them and they shall tremble every

man for his own life in the day of thy fall.”To show how our Scriptures are permeated with this SabaeanScience, in the 24th chap. of Matthew we have the startling

account of certain of the disciples (the fishers; see Mark 13:3) saying to Jesus “Tell us when shall these things be? Andwhat shall be the (zodiacal) sign of thy coming, and of the endof the world P’’

-

In reply Jesus gave them some astrological data, a part ofwhich was in relation to the fall of stars, after which he predicted that “This generation shall not pass till al

l

these things

be fulfilled.”

These fishermen were a personification of Jupiter and the

sign of

the Fishes; and as their generation is now about passed,

the fulfillment of

the prophecies is due simultaneously with thepredictions timed by Merlin and Hermas.

In further evidence of the fishers personifying the sign Pisces,

it is related Luke, 22d chap. that Jesus sent two of the fishers

to a man bearing a pitcher of water to say they would celebrateHis last Passover in that house.

In these characters we have personified three successive signs

of

the zodiac,+Jesus the Lamb or Aries, the Fishes, and the

Water-Bearer, Aquarius. The Passover of

the Sun from Pisces

into the Water-Bearer is now taking place.

“I SAW. A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN.” I43

When the South African War broke out Jupiter was in Scorpio under which sign President Kruger was born; hence, the

success of the Boers. Now Jupiter is in Sagittarius and thetide of victory turns in favor of the British arms.

But in 1901 Jupiter will approach the 15th degree of Capricornus, the place in the great cycle of his Fall.

ANNA PHAROS.

“TRUE philosophers ought ever to have before their eyes these nobleverses:

“Croire tout découvert est un erreur profonde:C'est prendre l'horizon pour les bornes du monde.”

“To deem that we know all, is but to placeOur own horizon as the bounds of space.”

If the name of Mesmerism frighten a timid soul, let him, if he please,go to the domain of Nature (which, however, is sure to lead to Mesmerismin the end,) and there, irrespectively of any alarming name, cull out forinvestigation those singular facts with which Nature, above all Human

Nature lavishly abounds. What in our asserted marvels can surpass

the following astonishing instinct, related by Captain Lost Stoker in hisvoyage of the Beagle “Miago had a decided, and most inexplicable,advantage over a

ll

on board, and that in a manner specially relating to the

science of navigation: he could indicate at

once and correctly, the exact

direction of

our wished for harbor, when neither sun nor stars were shining

to assist him. He was tried frequently, and under very varying circumstances, but, strange a

s it may seem, he was invariably right. This

faculty, although analogous to one I have heard ascribed to the natives of

North America, had very much surprised me when exercised on shore: but

at sea, out of sight of land, it seemed beyond belief, as it is assuredly be

yond explanation.” Such things ought to make us

modest. If we believeonly what we can explain, we shall believe very little indeed.

Rev. C. H. Townshen D.

I44 THE SPHINX.

TborogCope by one of the RapbacI8.

Natus

Feb. 9, 1851.

D in exact L., in Mundo with 3.

Latitude. Declination.

O r o z

RAPHAEL, H o 32 S # 9 55 Nb 2 22 S b 4 25 N

Walworth, London, S. 2. 1 27 N 21 7 36 S3. I o S 3. 20 49 S

2 4 22 N O 14 43 S

§ I 26 N 9 19 1 SReference No. xxxii-63. D 5 o S § 19 44 SApril, 1865. D 13 45 N

HOROSCOPE BY ONE OF THE RAPHAELS. I45

At the given time of the birth of a male, the position of theFirmament and of the planetary orbs, together with their variousconfigurations, were as I have depicted in the foregoing diagram.The Ioth degree of the celestial sign Aries culminated, and the5th of Leo arose. The Sun was therefore the “Lord of theAscendant,” and the Native's ruling planet.

These terms are of no import, and stress is laid thereon by theilliterate only, for it is upon the various influences emanating

from the positions of the planetary bodies, and the configura

tions they have among themselves, that we judge of the destinyof individuals.

The luminaries were in a quartile aspect from the cusps of the8th and 11th, the Sun being in trine to Jupiter in the 4th, ornorthern angle, and in sextile to Saturn and Uranus in the Ioth,

or southern. Mars had just set in the west; Venus was on thecusp of the 8th house, and Mercury receiving the Moon's trineapplied to a conjunction of Mars. The Sun and Moon were inzodiacal parallel.

These positions and aspects are very striking and important.

First, that of Saturn in the Midheaven; this is generally considered a very untoward condition, as when he is thus radicallyplaced he frequently produces some great reverse or misfortune.

This generally arises under some bad directions, but the great

evil may be averted by care and prudence.

The Moon in sextile to the Ascendant, and the Sun to theMidheaven, are favorable conditions, as are Venus in trine to

the Midheaven, and the Moon in trine to Mercury. Mars isfortunately removed a few degrees from the Descendant, orcusp of the 7th house, otherwise his influence may be detrimental to the Native's conjugal happiness. The quartile of theluminaries is detrimental, and will produce various difficulties.

THE LENGTH OF LIFE.

The solar orb had barely touched the Aphetic place, hence,

the Moon claims dominion as the “Hyleg,” or Giver of Life.The square of the Sun to Moon is a drawback as regards theconstitution, yet I do not consider it of grave import in this

146 THE SPHINx.

respect, as I think it influences the general destiny more thanthe vital principle. The Moon to the rapt parallel of Saturnand to the conjunction of that orb, will produce tendencies of anevil nature, but of that I will treat hereafter. The Sun in Aquarius causes inflammation of the blood, the stone, gravel, andstranguary, or a stoppage of the urine. It appears to me thatthose complaints are what he will be most subject to. Hence,

care should be taken on the appearance of such symptoms.

THE MIND AND DISPOSITION.

The trine of the mental rulers, Mercury and the Moon, is anindication of mental power and a high intellectual development;

a great power of discrimination and judgment; natural ability

for the acquisition of knowledge; and with such attributes theNative should become a good scholar. I opine that he willgreatly excel in his attainments, in classic and literary fame, asalso in business or professional pursuits.Mercury applies to a conjunction of Mars, and the Moon tohis trine aspect. This will endow him with much acumen andwit, as also in the power of repartee and logical inference. Itimproves his reasoning power, his comparison and causation, orthe relation of cause and effect, and of things generally. Fewminds are better constituted than this Native's.

GENERAL DESTINY.

BUSINESS OR PROFESSION.

Mars and Mercury are the chief rulers, and to these we may

add Saturn and Uranus as being in the Midheaven. Mars inAquarius leads one to the idea of “The Bar,” the Native'sacumen rendering him specially adapted for pleading and argument, and this is increased by the trine of Mercury and theMoon.

It appears to me that Saturn in the Midheaven will greatlyconduce to success in Profession, but at the same time he must

guard against too much acuteness lest it be wrongly directed.Here I fear he may fall, as we have seen cases even recently in

HOROSCOPE BY ONE OF THE RAPHAELS. I47

that eminent profession. Next, the same influences combine toproduce surgeons, and no doubt he would attain great skill andproficiency in surgery, and may carve out for himself a great

name. But the evil influence of Saturn will remain, and somemishap may cause a great reverse. This cannot be too stronglyimpressed on his mind, and good moral principles must be

inducted. The same influence conduces to produce statuaries,

and men who excel in the fine arts, where sharp instruments areused, or wherein stone and metals enter. The Bar or Surgeryare best and most suitable in this case.

HONOR AND FAME.

The position of Saturn in the Midheaven is calculated to leadto fame, and this is strengthened by the trine of the Sun andJupiter, and of the Moon and Mercury. But the malignant

Saturn always appears to raise the Native in order to glory

over the disaster he produces in the downfall.

MARRIAGE.

Venus in trine to the Midheaven is of good import, andbeing free from affliction I opine to be a good omen as regardsacquaintances with the opposite sex. In this respect he will besuccessful. Fortunately Mars is removed some distance fromthe cusp of the 7th house, or house of marriage, and I opinehe is far enough to remove all fear of his evil effects. I consider Mercury in Capricorn should be the significator of theperson most suitable for the Native's wife, as the Moon makeshis first aspect. Mercurial persons are generally of mediumstature or tall— rarely short or stout; of active, nimble habitsand generally neat in their person. When Mercury is inCapricorn the native is not so tall.Another kind of person is also shown: one of middle stature,well-set, strong, and sometimes inclined to be corpulent, a clear,

nice complexion, some beauty, somewhat pale or fair, the same

colored hair, and hazel eyes.

The Native will be the father of a moderate family.

The significations of traveling are not prominent or striking;

the Native will not travel much, or take many long journeys.

I48 THE SPHINX.

The Native will enjoy the friendship of some eminent orpowerful personages, considering the position or sphere inwhich he will move. He will have but few enemies, and those

he will overcome. Although his talents and fame will producefeelings of enmity in the minds of persons in the same profession

and sphere of life, it is from these he will have most to fear,

for they will take advantage of any weakness he may display,

or error he may commit: this I fear will be where he will feelthe evil influence of Saturn.

On the whole I consider this a good scheme of nativity. Itwould have been much better had Saturn been anywhere thanin the Midheaven, for there he is most potent. Still, even ithas some advantages.

As regards the acquirement of wealth, I consider the Nativewill be tolerably fortunate; he will enjoy a fair share of thisworld's goods. He should be strictly impressed with thenecessity and importance of observing and faithfully fulfilling allmatters of trust which may be reposed in him, as this is a point

in which the evil Saturn may be manifested. These are the

chief particulars of his horoscope, but should there be anypoint on which I have not remarked, or on which fartheropinion may be required, I shall be very happy to attend toany request.

I shall now proceed to enumerate and explain the Arcs ofDirection I have computed.The first I observe are:2/ A G) 13 yrs. 9 mos. Y. The first is favorable, but theG) D 21 14 yrs. 4 mos. other three are not. That in& H G) 14 yrs. 7 mos. June measures from the present

G) a b Z I 5 yrs. I mo. time until August; it points toSome displeasure from Superiors, but by care all may be overcome. That in September is also evil, but neither powerful

nor lasting. The same may be said of that in March, 1866.

3 * h comes up about 15 yrs. 9 mos. and will produce inclination to and credit from literary matters; if at school, someprize and honorable mention. The transit of Jupiter will bevery favorable during a great part of '66. But from the begin

HOROSCOPE BY ONE OF THE RAPHAELS. I49

ning of 1867 until May, and again as the year advances, that of

Saturn will be very unfavorable, and very probably affect thehealth and produce other evils.

# 3 M. C. about sixteen and one-half years, will produce

Some unexpected and uncommon events, is somewhat connected with mental acquirements, and of an honorable nature,

but yet not unmixed with some alloy or drawback.

h D > at 16 yrs. 9 mos. is evil but not powerful, probablyaffecting the Native's mother; by no means a favorable testimony.

H + C) at 17 yrs. I mo., favorable, sudden and unexpected

benefits; progress and advancement.

Q D h near 19 yrs. is very evil in import; it will causeillness and probably accident; affections of the heart; some discredit and unpleasantness; trouble to parents; an evil period.

There will, however, be some good transits in 1870.

G) P H zod., about the same time, operates for a longperiod, and produces an uncertainty in all the Native does oris connected with. I consider it favorable in matters connectedwith learning, but in other respects it is not good.

O A D follows closely, measuring to 19 yrs. I mo, bringsthe favor and friendship of powerful and rich ladies, preferment,

journeys of a profitable and honorable nature; much to do with

females and he may meet his wife under this influence. Very

good.

D ~ 2 19 yrs. 2 mos., rather unfavorable in reference towomen and friends.

D A § 19 yrs. 3 mos. will bring success in the Native'svocation or studies, and will stir up a strong desire for literary

pursuits and scientific inquiry; a propensity to travel; and thefriendship of some person of note.

G) >k 2 zod., 19 yrs. 6 mos. is also a very favorable aspect,

and will stir up a desire for music, plays and amusement. Atthis time, I opine, he will feel the influence of love, and becomeengaged, or at least pay some very marked attention to a lady.

The friendship of ladies, and a prosperous, happy period.

Q P & 19 yrs. 9 mos., a journey; some martial inclination.

I 50 The SPHINx.

If he elects medicine and surgery as his profession, this influencewill be remarkably good for him; it will carry him on in hisstudies and produce new friends. But let him beware of disputes and accidents.

D ~ 3 20 yrs. I I mos., untoward; beware of intemperate

conduct and all things which may lead to accident or quarrel.

D >k h zod., 20 yrs. 3 mos., benefits by elderly persons;

much popularity; the friendship of Saturnine persons, and possibly a legacy; a good time.h a G) 23 yrs. 7 mos., untoward tendencies; reverses; andG) D. M. C. at 23 yrs. 8 mos. is calulated to cause some sudden disgrace, or loss of position. Be very wary of all you doafter 23 yrs. of age until 25, for there are some very evil tendencies, especially during the 25th year. Let this be heeded, or hewill fall, not to rise again; whereas, if he is diligent and prudent,

much of the evil may be averted.

O ~ 21 24 yrs. o mos. Y. The two first are evil, but the last2 < D 24 yrs. 3 mos.

}:the worst. It will last all the

D R P h 24 yrs. 9 mos. J 25th year, and to add to theevil I find Saturn will be transiting Aquarius over the Sun'splace and in square to the Moon's— all the year. This is themost critical period of 50 years. Do nothing without a

ll caution and forethought; seek the aid of friends' counsel and o

f

horary questions in all cases of doubt. The revolutional figures

of

this period may explain much. Ill health is highly probable,but disgrace is most to be feared.

D A G) 25 yrs. 6 mos. is much more favorable; a great

change for the better; good for marriage; if so, prosperityattends; the friendship o

f

some eminent persons, especially

females; a journey; now he should marry.

D & H 27 yrs. 8 mos. is a mixed nature; it will produce

some good tendencies, but attended with some gloom or draw

back. The

O P 21 zod. measures to the same date; they are very

D A 21 zod. potent and of fortunate tendency, and willoperate over a lengthened period.

6 & 2 and º P G) follow immediately, and will conduce

to honor and professional advancement.

HOROSCOPE BY ONE OF THE RAPHAELS. I5 I

H → D and 2 < asc. at 28 yrs. 5 mos. are untoward,

but not powerful.

§ A M. C. and D rapt parallel 21 with 3 >k G) from

28 yrs. 6 mos. to 29 yrs. are most favorable in professionalmatters, and will cause advancement of public position, increaseof business, and an active, honorable period.

G) → H. zod. 29 yrs. 6 mos., untoward, but not powerful.

G) & 3. 30 yrs. 2 mos. may cause accident, but very

fortunate if in medical profession.

D rapt parallel # 30 yrs. IO mos. good, and

some drawback attendant; it lasts some months:

D 8 2/ 31 yrs., some illness, probably liver complaint;expenses and disputes, but he will overcome all by care,

21 - G) 31 yrs. 6 mos., as the last, but not so powerful.

h >k ) 35 yrs. 9 mos., benefit by elderly persons.

& P G)35 yrs. 3 mos.) Good fo

r

profession, especial

& A M. C. 35 yrs. IO mos. ly if in medicine and sur

& >k

G)

38 yrs. 8 mos.

y gery.

Very evil, illness; danger of

D 3 h. 38 yrs. 6 mos.). losses.g

D A 2 39 yrs. O mos.

}Fortunateb A asc. 40 yrs. 6 mos.o f; : 3 C . . All very fortunate. They

D >k

G)

43°54'equate a little over 2 yrs. more

o -/ than the degrees; then from

2/

>k

asc. 46° O

2 A asc. 46° 35' 42 to 49 years.

D D 3 49° 4' Bad.

H A asc. 50° 40' Good.

With best wishes,RAPHAEL.

May 1, 1865.

But there is a fatality attends the actions of some men; order them as

they will, they pass through a certain medium which so twists and refractsthem from their true course, that with all the titles to praise which a recti

tude of

heart can give, the doers of

them are nevertheless forced to live anddie without it. STERNE.

I 52 THE SPHINx.

Cbe Character ano ſfortuneg of $5corpio.

Scorpio confers on those born under its influence a subtle,

penetrating, persuasive, fertile, active, proud, obstinate, capricious, dreamy, poetical and sometimes religious spirit. The willis firm, fixed and pertinacious, the character ardent, aggressive,

warlike and irascible with a certain brusquerie and sometimes

violence which does not prevent its being good-natured and

generous in its

own way. The temper is phlegmatic silent and

discreet with sometimes a shade of misanthropy. Scorpio

people are slow to anger and slow to reconcile. They canbe very vindictive and make dangerous enemies. They can be

turbulent and quarrelsome if their education and surroundings

do not correct the tendency. In their opinions they are oftenprejudiced and dogmatic with a violent and aggressive obstinacy.

When the lymphatic temperament predominates they offer a

stolid resistance to obstacles and to their enemies. This signgives skill and patience in work, an ambitious spirit, an attraction for the sea and water generally, a love o

f

architecture andbuildings and a preference for a country life. Scorpio gives

little happiness in the first half of life but prosperity in the

latter part; the possessions promised later will come by appar

ent accident or

in connection with religion or long journeys,

sometimes from two different sources. An inheritance is to

be expected for Scorpio always gives money sooner or

later.There will be few or no brothers, one of them is threatened

with violent accidents a fall or drowning. In a night horoscope

(before or

after sunset) the father is threatened with a reverse

of

fortune. Among the probable illnesses are malarial feverswhich may be contracted over the seas, then violent headaches

and neuralgias: Scorpio nearly always gives more or

less

serious injuries to the arms and hands. Illness may be causedby the natural tendency of this sign to overdo either work or

pleasure. The native will certainly marry more often twicethan once for a

n early widowhood is possible, one of

these

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF SCORPIO. I 53

unions will not be happy. Scorpio like all

the watery signs is

prolific and tends to a large family. A great heart grief or

widowhood is probable before 30. The partner runs a risk of

injury by some larger animal or by secret enemies. Sorrow

will be caused by the relatively early loss of some dear one,

lover or

friend. Long journeys by land and sea are indicated,

they will not be altogether fortunate. If the native goes abroadhe may be the victim o

fa plot or

ambush from which however

he will escape uninjured, Scorpio people being providentially

preserved against all dangers. There will be many friends and

the familiarity of distinguished people; a friend or superior will

however injure either the profession orin love. The enemies

will be violent and will crop up even among friends and partners.

The higher notes of the character are Courage and Will Power.The temperament is lymphatic bilious or nervous bilious according to the climate. Every sign has 30 degrees each IO degrees

or

decan of which has a subinfluence of another (or the same)

planet:—

I. Decan ruled by Mars. Deceptions and ambushes in lifehidden and dangerous enemies, perilous voyages, chimericalprojects: a strong energetic nature capable o

f great feats of

endurance and courage. In strife fearless and relentless, ambitious, masterful, determined, strange and impulsive love affairs,

illness through natural tendency to excess but the native is bornto command and has faithful servants.

II. Ruled by the Sun. Antipathy of

the great, revival of

ancient feuds, danger of

loss of position: honors, governing

faculty, a pride which may become despotic and mercilessly

cruel. Some degree of

fame is certain.

III. Ruled by Venus. An original character “a child of

nature” strong and masterful will power, ardent passions: thenative is prone to unwisdom in love affairs and unless forethought be used these will cause sorrow. In marriage therewill be trouble. There is capacity for great passional devotionwhich however may cause disaster, many enemies are to beexpected and the secret enmity of

women.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Scorpio rising at

their birth.-E.D.

I 54 The SPHinx.

(Ibe 35cience of Celegtial ºbílogo.php Relatingto ſºlativitieg.

FoundED on THE TRUE AND PROGREssive Motion of THE PLANETARY BODIES ; ExPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED witH

DIAGRAMs, IN A SERIES OF LETTERs.

By G. T. F. SMITH TO R. PRICE.

LETTER No. 2.

CHELTENHAM, December, 1852.

DEAR SIR: When once you fully comprehend my system,

and become careful how you apply it,

it will amply rewardyour study.

I shall take your remarks in due order.

In Napoleon's natus the Moon to opposition of Mercury,

radix, is upon my view especially neutralized. The Moon in

2°

22' Libra is also in semi-square to Saturn in the Ioth, local. Iterm the aspects local when the planets concerned have changed

their places. Saturn was in Scorpio 20°24' radix, with 17° 9'

due about November, 1852. Now, the aspects stand thus:

Moon opposition Mercury.

Moon semi-square Saturn.

These arcs of

the Moon I term Primary Directions, but theyare not excited to action, consequently I do not respect them.Saturn is retrograde in Taurus in 1852, and if we add 15° to

his present place, or

to his place in September last, we shall

find it gives the sesquisquare 27° Virgo, very close upon theMoon's place by direction; and if Saturn were direct it wouldconstitute an afflicting aspect. But Saturn and Uranus areboth retrograde in Taurus when the Moon forms the above.

If they were direct and applying, the excitement would bepowerful, and I should in that case note what countervailing

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. I 55

aspects the Moon formed here, and well consider the adjuvants

from the oppressors.

The Moon meets the parallel of Jupiter local in 8° 7' Libra,

and the parallel of the Moon radix in 11° Libra, due in February, 1853. She is now applying to the above, and to theradical Mercury in the second house, promising diplomatic orcontroversial matters opposive to his pecuniary interests, if itwere excited. It is not, but even this would be very evanescentif excited, because the Moon is close upon Jupiter's paralleland her own parallel in the radix, and is semi-sextile to the

Part of Fortune and to Uranus. She forms a semi-square toSaturn, which, as Saturn is angular in the Ioth, would bepowerful for mischief in all Government measures were it

excited whilst the Moon applies to it.

But she passes thesemi-square o

f

Saturn radix before any excitement begins, as

Saturn by transit does not apply to the sesquisquare of

the

Moon's directions until the 13th of January, 1853, Saturn beingthen in 11° 2' Taurus.

But the benign aspect is excited, as Jupiter applies to theMoon by sextile whilst she is forming the parallels of Jupiter

and the Moon. This latter, therefore, becomes a favorableand powerful excitement to a favorable direction — like to like.And even now, whilst forming these, h

e is proclaimed Emperor,

and when the Moon trines Sun local in the spring of 1853,Jupiter will excite by a quintile to the Moon's directional place.

Here you have the true doctrine of planetary influence, but

many letters may pass before you fully comprehend it.

Theanalogy o

f

the excitement system you will find in Number 138,

in the Book of Facts on Electrical Science : “When the exciting current ceases, the current aroused by it in the nerve ceasesalso. The current in the latter resembles the magnetism o

f

softiron, which is easily excited, but becomes null the moment theexciting cause ceases.” Now, a nerve excited by electricity

stands in the same relation as the dormant places or impres

sions of

the planets in a nativity. They become aroused by

ponderous bodies exciting them, but the moment the excitement ceases they are null. The science of

these principles

I 56 THE SPHINX.

can be demonstrated with a certainty, but great accuracy isrequired.

Retrograde application is the most powerful excitement.

Even Mercury in that case I deem exciting. Uranus, Saturn,and Jupiter are the principal exciters, and they excite whendirect, Mars, Venus, and Mercury only when retrograde. TheSun's excitement is only slight— his motion is too quick.Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter begin to excite when within nineor ten degrees from the place of direction, and excite themalignant directions only at those times when they themselvesform either a conjunction, parallel, semi-square, square, sesqui

square, or opposition to the places where the direction fallsdue, or to the planets applying to such direction. The Sun'sapplication in Louis Napoleon's natus to the semi-square ofMars will operate but imperceptibly until 1854.Remember that all is nothing without excitement. And asin grammar the nominative case should agree with the verb, so

must the excitement agree with the direction. A semi-sextile,or trine are powerless to a malignant direction. You cannotfail to observe how rational all these causes are, and the

scientific balance of testimony, as you master all this, willbecome manifest, and beautifully true to nature in her more

simple form.

The following nativity of the late Lady Lovelace is taken

from The Grammar of Astrology. (See map on p. 157.)The Directions are as follows (note that those which fall in

the sixth house are more powerful to evil): (See map on p. 158.)Five heavy afflictions at death, and Jupiter by a squareexciting the Moon whilst so afflicted. The Moon is sextile toJupiter and Venus angular in the radix, Jupiter by a semi-sextile from Sagittarius exciting these saving aspects. Let usexamine their fitness to save. Jupiter at birth is square toSaturn; Venus is square to Saturn; Jupiter is semi-square

to Sun; Venus is semi-square to Sun. Although these twoarbiters in their own nature are benign, yet this place becomes

less powerful to save when opposed to five afflictions to Moonin the sixth, and the malefic radical aspects so reducing to

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. I 57

Jupiter and Venus. We find powerful excitement by an opposition of Saturn and Uranus in 1852, retrograding to theirradical places at the very time Jupiter excites the Moon by

square to the preponderating testimony. You will at once perceive that this must be well weighed and analyzed before you

R. A. 273° 22'

Dec. 10, 1815.

I.O.O. P.M.

draw your deductions. But bear in mind it is the only truthfulway in which the planets act upon us, and upon each other.The examples will surprise you as you go to the root of thesystem and act in accordance with it; and that it is no meanmode of illustration, but the veritable science itself, when the

mind is in a state to cope with it.

You will find the secondary aspects, so termed (I call themprimary), require to be carefully taken, to omit nothing of

I 58 the SPhinx.

concurrent testimony. You will observe Placidus dwells muchupon these directions in connection with transits and ingresses,

the former of which I did not perceive otherwise than as respects primary directions, for it was not methodical. In 1847the light broke in upon me. For five years I have been

D in 6th DI ºf B. D ssg. 3 B.

D par. 3 local D D H

D ssg. G) local

The progressive Moon in this chart has evidently been copied wrongly. From the directionaldata given it should be entering Virgo.- Editor.

improving and perfecting my system, which I think I have nowachieved.

Your remark upon primary directions is just. Note thenativity of the author of the Prophetic Messenger–Sun sextileJupiter in zodiac, and yet he is in a decline.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. I 59

There have been endless disputes upon dividing the heavens,

the polar distances, measure of time, etc., horary astrology, andfortunate days My opinion is

,

that time and idle quackery

hav much nterfered with the science— correct principles perverted by the change of ages; and in place of cause and effect,

a mere system of

divination has succeeded, and the most valuable secrets which eminent men have possessed, are lost.

Yours truly,GEORGE SMITH.

IS FRIDAY AN UNLUCKY DAY 2

This question has received the following replies in the Norfolk Beacon ;

which show how little the Americans have to dread “the fatal day”:

“On Friday, Aug. 21, 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed on his great

voyage o discovery. On Friday, Oct. 12, 1492, he first discovered land.

On Friday, Jan. 4,

1493, he sailed on his return to Spain, which, if he had

not reached in safety, the happy result would never have been known

which led to the settlement on

this vast continent. On Friday, March 15,

1493, he arrived at Palos in safety. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1493, he arrived

at Hispaniola, in his second voyage to America. On Friday, June 13,

1494, he, though unknown to himself, discovered the continent of

America.

On Friday, March 5,

1496, Henry VIII. of England gave to John Cabothis commission, which led to the discovery o

f

North America. This is

the first American state paper in England. On Friday, Sept. 7,

1565,

Melendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States by

more than forty years. On Friday, Nov. Io, 1620, the Mayflower, withthe Pilgrims, made the harbor o

f Provincetown; and on the same day theysigned that august compact, the forerunner o

f

our present glorious Constitution. On Friday, Dec. 22, 1620, the Pilgrims made their final landing

at Plymouth Rock. On Friday, Feb. 22, George Washington, the father

of

American freedom, was born. On Friday, June 16, Bunker Hill wasseized and fortified. On Friday, Oct. 7

,

1777, the surrender of Saratoga

was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France to

declare for our cause. On Friday, Sept. 22, 1780, the treason of

Arnoldwas laid bare, which saved u

s from destruction. On Friday, Oct. 19, 1781,

the surrender at Yorktown, the crowning glory of

the American arms,

occurred. On Friday, July 7,

1776, the motion in Congress was made by

John Adams, seconded by Richard Henry Lee, that the United States

colonies were, and of right ought to be, free and independent. Thus, by

numerous examples, we see that, however it may be with foreign nations,

Americans need never dread to begin on Friday any undertaking, howevermomentous it may be.”

I6o the SPhinx.

(Ibe £13trologer's U)abe (Decum.

CHAPTER III.— THE TABLE OF ELEMENTS.

RULE your Table like the one herein given, and having computed the latitudes by the same methods that the longitudes

are computed, place the same in the Table. Be sure the longi

tudes are correctly calculated and insert them next below the

latitudes. Then calculate the R. A.; the M. D.; Dec.; A. D.,and Sac. Finally, calculate the 4, § and 3 of the Sac. Unless

these Elements are calculated correctly, it will be useless toexpect the Directions will be correct. I have been over mywork several times, but still there may be errors that I haveoverlooked. However, if there are any, even a tyro in figuresmay detect them, for I give the rules and method of work soplainly that an error may be detected as easily as in simpleaddition.

Tables of R. A. are usually given for north latitudes only,

and when a planet has south latitude, work as follows:If the planet is in Aries look to Libra, its opposite sign, just

as though it was in Libra; take out the R.

A. for the degrees

of

latitude and longitude, regardless of

the minutes of

either

and subtract from it 180°, because Libra has 180° more longitude than Aries. Then calculate the amount of R. A. contained

in the minutes of

the longitude and minutes of

latitude. If thelongitude o

r

latitude is increasing, add the result to the R.

A.already found, but subtract is decreasing.

If the planet is in Libra, with south latitude, turn to Ariesand do all the work as already described, except you must add

180°. Care is necessary in doing this work to find the R. A.

in the column of

latitude headed with the same degree as the

latitude of

the planet. We will now calculate the R.

A.of

theMoon.

The Moon is in Virgo with south latitude. Write down18o.oo; look at the column headed 1% latitude and run down it

till opposite 2° longitude in the first column at

the left and at

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. I61

the point of intersection see 154.22, which is the R. A. of 2°of Virgo in 1° of latitude, without the minutes of longitude orlatitude. Set the 154.22 under the 180.o.o. The longitude isalways gaining. See how much it gains from 2° to 3° oflongitude; it gains 57". Then 60' of longitude at this point

in the zodiac make only 57" of R. A. Therefore say: If 60'of longitude make 57' of R. A. how much R. A. will the 48' oflongitude make? Turn to the Tables of 4th Terms and see that

60 heads every column of figures, and is the first term of theproportion. Find 57 under a 60 on page 23; run down thecolumn till opposite 48 in the first column at the left and at thepoint of intersection see 46, which is the 4th term of the proportion and the answer; set it under the minutes of the R. A.already found, that it may be added. Now to convert theminutes of latitude. Look in the next column to the right ofthe 154.22 and see 154.44. It gains 22' in 1° or 60'. Thensay: As 60:22::19: 7. Find this on page 18 of 4th, thesame as the 46' were found and set it under the 46". Add alltogether. The answer is 335.15 which is the R. A. of theMoon. It is best to always convert the minutes of longitudefirst to avoid errors by forgetting which you have converted.Had the latitude been losing, I should have subtracted the 7'instead of adding them. In this manner find the R. A. of eachplanet except the Sun, which has no latitude, and the R.A. willalways be found in the column headed “O'” and its minutes of

longitude must be

converted into R.

A.

the same as

the minutes

of

the Moon's were. Learn this method perfectly and you willhave no trouble in converting the others. The student may

profit by the methods shown in the following

EXAMPLES.

2

Lat. o N. 44Long, ob2O

27.54 = R. A. o of 8 in o' N. Lat.19' = R. A. of 20' Long. +

28.13

15 = R.A. of 44' Lat.—

27.58 = R. A. of oğ20 in o' N. Lat.

162 THE SPHINX.

bLat. o N. I 5Long. 21 go 48

1 12.43 = R. A. of 21° gº in o’ I 5' N. Lat.o.46= R. A. of 48' Lat. --o.o.2 = R. A. of 15' Lat. --

I 13.3 I= R. A. of 21 go 48 in o° 15' Lat.In both these Examples the student must equate for the R.A. of theminutes of Long. and Lat. by Tables of 4th Terms.

We next calculate the planet's M.D. (Meridian Distance)that is

,

its distance in R.

A. from the nearest Meridian. If theplanet is above the horizon, find it

s

distance from the upper

meridian ; if below the horizon, its distance from the lowermeridian, by the following

RULE.

Always go forward in the zodiac for the minuend, whetherthe R

.

A. of a planet or meridian, borrowing the circle, 360°,

when needed, as happens in the case of

the G)

2 & 3 and 21.

EXAMPLES.

2

R. A. of 2 = 27.58360.oo = Borrow Circle +

387.58 = Minuend3o 1.14= R. A. Meridian —

86.44 = ?’s M. D.

h

R. A.of

Meridian = 121.14R. A. ofh= I 13.31

h's M. D.— 7.43

NOTE.—The arc of the mother's death is h’s M. D.

RULE To CALCULATE DECLINATION.

On the first page of the Tables of Dec., in the same line

as

the degrees of latitude, on

the left is ga

and on

the right II.

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. 163

If a planet is 25° in ga and 4° No. latitude, start at 4° of latitude and run down the column till opposite 25° on left handand at the point of intersection see 25.5. Then equate theminutes, if any, just as you did in R. A. On the right hand,

under II the order of the figures is reversed and they increasefrom the bottom of the page. A planet is 20° 15' N. latitude,in II. Now we run up the page in column headed 4°, opposite20° of longitude on the left, and the point of intersection andsee 27°5'. The next Dec. above it is 27°9', showing that 6o'of longitude at that point in the zodiac make only 2' Dec.(3* Remember that when we work from the bottom, as in thiscase, we must always go up instead of down, to find whether it

is gaining or losing. Equate by Tables of 4th terms, the same

as in computing R. A. and add if gaining but subtract if losing.

ExAMPLES.

(C

Lat. I S. 19Long. 2 3 48

I 1.42 = (['s Dec. in 2 36 and 19 S. Lat.o.17 = 48' in 2° of 36 and 19 S. Lat.—

II.25o.18= 1

9.

Lat. in 2°

36 and 19 N. Lat. --

I 1.43 = C's Dec. of 2 × 48 and I S. 19

§

Lat. I N. 31

Long. 5 84714.07 = 3 Dec. in 5 8 and 1

9 N.

Lat.

o.16 = Dec. 47' in 5 8 and 19 N.

Lat.

o.29 = Dec. 31' in 5 8 and 19 N. Lat.

14.52 = Dec. 58 47 in 1 N.31 Lat.

If a sign of the zodiac is placed between two numbers, thus,

2 × 48, it means longitude and need not be designated as

such; orif the letter N.

orS.

be placed 1 S.

19 or1 N.

31 it

means latitude or

declination. In calculating the declination

I64 THE SPHINx.

of the Sun there is but one equation to make for minutes,

because the Sun has no latitude. In equating for the 48'of the Moon's longitude, I found as the longitude increasedthe declination decreased, and therefore subtracted for the

result of the equation. But the declination was increasing asthe latitude increased and therefore I added the result.

It will be observed that on the 3d page of the Tables ofDeclination, ºf is at the upper, right-hand corner, and thatthe longitude begins “30" and decreases to zero at the bottom.Therefore begin at zero and run up the page to 20°, the Sun'slongitude, and then across to the left, in the column headed“o°,” and there find 7° 50'. We are working from the bottomof the page, and hence, to find “how fast it is going,” that is

,

how much declination is gained or

lost in 1° of longitude, we

must go up to the 21st degree of Aries; it lost 16'. Then:

As 60': 16'::6':2', which 2' subtract; the remainder is the

Sun's declination.

In the case of the Moon, the declination lost as the longitudeincreased, but gained as the latitude increased; so I subtractedand added accordingly.

Always head the work with the planet, as in the following

example, and next write the latitude and longitude. Thenproceed with the calculation according to the form o

f

thefollowing

ExAMPLES.

*

Lat. I S. IoLong. 23 3& 24

3.43 = Dec. in Lat. 1"

o.1 o– Dec. 24' —3.33

o.o.9 = Dec. 10 +

3.42 = Dec. of Neptune.354.24 = R. A. :

3ol.14 = R.A. of M. C.

53.1o = 'y M. D.

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&Lat. o S. 11

Long. 27 8 6 *

234.44 = R. A. 27 mK 6 in o° N. Lat.18o.oo = Half of zodiac –54.44 ºo.oé= R. A. of 6' of Taurus.o.o.3 = R. A. of 1 I' Lat.

54.53 = 3 R. A.360.oo = Add the circle to subtract.

4I4.53

3ol. 14= Subtract R.A. of M. C.

I 13.39 = 3 M. D.

TABLE OF ELEMENTS.

CATHARINE H. THOMPSON.

mé. | * | * | * | * | * | * | *51.31 |1 S. 191 S. Iolo S. IIlo N. 15|o S. 46|o N. 55|o N. 44|o N. 3020°6 |2 × 48|23}{24|27 86.219.543|198192 f Iolo 8 2058 4718.33 ||335.15|354.24| 54.48||113.31|| 47.02|240. I5] 27.55| 32.57

..] 77.19 || 34.or| 53.1o 1 13.34 7.43, IoS.48, 60.59| 86.44 91.43

... 7 N. 52 |11 S.433 S. 42|19N.2921 N.58||18N.5o 198.43|12N.16|14N.51

... 9.5I 15.06| 4.41| 26.25. 30.28 25.23| 26.20, 15.53; 19.48

99.5I 74.54|| 85.19|116.25, 59.32 II.5.23| 63.40. Io9.53 io9.4849.55 | 37.27| 42.39| 58.12. 29.46 57.41| 31.5o 52.56 54.5433.17 | 24.58| 28.26|| 38.48 19.51| 38.28 21. 13| 35. 18 39.5667.34 || 49.56| 56.53| 77.37 39.41| 76.55 42.27| 70.35| 79.52

The foregoing diagram of

the zodiac wil enable the student

to obtain a clearer idea of

the elements of Astrology than can

be given in any other way.

The earth's equator projected into, and around, the heavens,

becomes the equinoctial, called by some, “celestial equator,”

but I prefer the term “equinoctial,” because less liable to

become confounded with “equator.” The inclination of

the

earth's axis to the plane of

its orbit, the poles always pointing

in the same direction, causes the earth to move around the Sun

in two segments of a circle, the equinoctial forming the chord

I66 The SPhinx.

of both, one-half its

orbit north of the equinoctial and the otherhalf south of it

.

Now suppose the zodiac and equinoctial to

be real substances, instead of only imaginary, and suppose we

suppress its

circumference to six inches, then cut it through

at

the first point of Aries and straighten it out like straighten

ing a hoop, we shall have a representation of

the foregoing

diagram. The six northern signs are on the north side of it

and the six southern signs on the south side. The zodiac is

represented by the three curved lines, the center line being

called the ecliptic, on which the Sun has its apparent orbit,

while the heavy, horizontal line is the equinoctial.

To the student in Astrology who is not versed in astronomy,some explanations are necessary in order that he may have a

clearer idea of

the foregoing work and what is to follow. Theseexplanations will be given in the next chapter.

THE POWER OF SATURN.

AN old Hindu legend runs that Vishnu, the second person of the Hindutriad, while reposing calmly on his heavenly throne, thought o

f casting a

look at his own nativity, and found in it,

that the next nineteen years of

his

life were under the malefic influence of Saturn; so in order, if possible, to

evade it,

and to defeat Saturn, Vishnu transformed himself into the shape

ofan elephant, and spent the nineteen years in a dense forest, eating grass

and other vegetables, fearing lest Saturn would inflict on him insufferablepunishment had h

e

remained in his divine shape. When the nineteenyears had elapsed, Vishnu resumed his real form and throne, and whilesitting there h

e one day saw Saturn passing by, and having called him,

asked: “How was it,

Saturn, that you were not able to do me any injury

in the nineteen years in which you had power over me?” “Why, Sire,”replies Saturn, “what can we poor subordinates d

o

to such exalted gods

as you are, except that for nineteen full years you have been eating nothing

but grass, and passing a most miserable life indeed, tormented by

flies andmosquitoes.” This playful irony of

Saturn's was to show Vishnu that

Saturn inflicted the destined punishment upon him by

the very means that

Vishnu adopted to elude the same.

AN ASTROLOGIC COURTSHIP. 167

Kin Høtrologic Courtóbip.

I Awoke to find myself surrounded by strangers, who wereregarding me with an air of deepest interest.“Well, my friends !” I remarked as nonchalantly as waspossible under the circumstances. “How can I serve you?”There was no reply. They drew a long, deep breath, quite

in unison, then jumped from their seats and began shaking

hands with one another, taking not the slightest notice of me.They seemed under the spell of an emotion too deep forwords.

At this moment my attention was attracted toward a manwho sat apart from the others, and nearer the head of the bed,

where he gazed at me with piercing eyes that seemed to pene

trate my very soul. The others turned toward him, after having greeted one another, as if moved by a strong impulse tooffer their hands to him also; but he merely glanced at them,slightly nodding, then once more turned his gaze on me. Hiscompanions bowed, almost sweeping the floor with their caps,then, with one accord they broke into a hearty cheer.“Runjeet Singh !” they cried. “All honor to the greatRunjeet Singh !”Runjeet Singh the name brought memory back to herstronghold, and I turned to look more closely at the man sittingso quietly at the head of my bed.

“He is not Runjeet Singh !” I exclaimed. “Why do you callhim so?”My companions paid no attention to my query, but lookedwith troubled eyes at him whom they had called Runjeet Singh.

There was evident displeasure in his face, as he arose from his

seat and quietly left the room.

“I am a humble minister of the Almighty,” he said, at thedoor. “Give all honor to Him to whom it is due.”“Say!” I exclaimed, as the door closed behind him, “whydid you call him Runjeet Singh P”

I68 THE SPHINX.

My companions looked at me very much as their master hadlooked at them, and then they as silently left the room.I was alone, and I decided to dress. I strove to assume asitting posture, but my joints refused to move.“The scoundrel !” I muttered; “he said I’d come out of itfeeling as good as new, and here I am as stiff as a ramrod!”There was a small bell on the table near my bed. If I couldreach it I could summon Runjeet Singh, the man who hadinduced me to be buried alive. He would doubtless hasten

to my assistance. I exerted myself to the uttermost, but Icould not move my hand so much as the tenth part of an inch.As for my feet and legs, I had to take them on faith. Theyhad been with me only a little while ago, and they must beyet; but below my neck I was as lifeless as if dead. Howdeeply I regretted the curiosity that had led me to the studyof the occult! How I prayed to be myself again just longenough to punish the man who had induced me to offer myself

a victim to his unholy practices ! I lay there, impotentlycursing him, when the current of my thoughts was suddenlychanged by the unexpected appearance of a young lady. Shewas standing in the doorway when I first noticed her, gazingat me exactly as I have seen naturalists study a new kind ofbug. It was disconcerting. I felt that something should besaid, and since she showed no inclination to speak first, I mustnecessarily do what I could to break the embarrassing silence.“Good afternoon | " I said, cheerfully, “did old Martin VanBuren get in P”“Did — did wih-a-tº"The expression on her face led me to believe that she wasdeaf, so I raised my voice to repeat the question.“Martin Van Buren | Was he elected? I voted for him,my first vote. Good chap, old Martin "“Good chap !” repeated my guest, with a merry laugh.

“Good chap, indeed! My friend, if you were better read—butI forget ! How could you be?”“Is that intended for sarcasm P” I asked, mildly. “Do youmean that I know it all, or that I'm not bright enough toassimilate more?”

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“Neither, my friend. Don't vex yourself without reason.May I come in?”I grunted an assent. I wanted her to entertain me, of course,but I didn't want to appear too well pleased until I knew whethershe came as friend or foe.

“Thanks!” she said, dropping into a chair near my bed.“Now I can talk to you comfortably. To begin, Martin VanBuren became president—the good Martin for whom you voted— and within two months the total business failures in NewYork alone reached the enormous sum of one hundred millions

of dollars. I quote from history. Factories and mills stoppedrunning, and in one year the total debt of the country —”“Stop!” I gasped. “For Heaven's sake, stop ! My brainreels.”

“Why, what is the matter? Is it possible you have not beentold P”

“Told what? But no let's get at this thing in a logicalmanner.”

A frightful idea had taken possession of me. What if Runjeet Singh had kept me buried for an entire year, instead of amonth, as he had promised? Would not that account for the

horrible stiffness I felt in every joint whenever I tried to move?My guest regarded me with a look in which I saw both amusement and sympathy.

“Well,” she said, “ask questions. Perhaps it will be thebest to let you enlighten yourself in your own way.”

“How long has Martin Van Buren been president?”

“He served four years, I believe.”“Four years' "“Yes. I'm not a very good historian, but — ”“Historian | Madam, are you crazy?”“Oh, no. Oh, dear, no l but I'm really afraid you will bebefore you realize — I wonder where Runjeet Singh can beHe had no right to leave you— ”“Runjeet Singh || Yes, where is he?” I asked eagerly.“Let me get hold of him, just once—Oh, but I'll— ”“Don't!” she whispered; “don’t make threats, and please

17o the SPHinx.

forget that I dared criticise him. It is very rash to say a wordagainst Runjeet Singh.”

“Perhaps discretion is the better part of valor,” I said,meekly, “and just now I couldn't harm a fly.” I had nothought, however, of overlooking any opportunity for revenge

that might present itself.“Well,” I continued, trying to assume a jocular air, “wemight as well continue our lesson | Will you be kind enoughto tell me what year this is?”“Today is the first of July, 1963,” was the startling reply.

I gasped for breath, but recovering myself with a heroiceffort, burst into a fi

tof laughter.

“What a little tease you are !” I said, “but please be good,now. Don't tease any more, there's a good girl | Do you

think you are treating me with the consideration I deserve,under the circumstances?”

“I’m trying to,” gravely. It is a difficult position. What is

the latest year you can recall?”“Why, 1837, of course ! I don't believe it is later than thatnow !”

“You must try to believe it.

What is your latest recollection ? "

“Runjeet Singh was preparing to bury me alive. Heburied the Fakir of Lahore, you remember, and unearthed andresuscitated him six weeks later; but there were those who did

not believe it was just as it seemed to be, because the Fakir –well, you know how Fakirs are usually regarded, and he wasRunjeet Singh's instructor. Runjeet Singh wanted some onewho could in no way be accused of complicity”—

“And you offered your services. It is all down in the

records. Well, he decided that you must sleep until ninetimes fourteen years had come and gone. He said your lifewas of

little use either to the world or yourself; but if it

were devoted to science your parents need not be so ashamed

of having given you birth.”“I reflected that it was necessary for me to hear all thisfrank young lady could tell, and that it would therefore be

AN ASTROLOGIC COURTSHIP. 171

policy to take no note of this reflection on my parents andmyself.

“Nine times fourteen—that makes one hundred and twentysix,” I said slowly—“And one hundred and twenty-six added to 1837 makes1963,” was her triumphant response.

“Where are we?"

“In the court of Loodhiana, just where the operation tookplace one hundred and twenty-six years ago. Your coffin, andthe door to your vault was fastened with the Rajah's seal, buttoday Americans rule Loodhiana, and so the bolts were brokenby a Yankee blacksmith. It has proven beyond a doubt thatapparent cessation of all the vital functions may continue for

an indefinite period where the right conditions exist, and Runjeet Singh is indeed a happy man. He has gone far beyond

all knowledge possessed by the Fakir of Lahore.”“But—but I might not have survived ” I faltered.“That, my friend, would be a matter of little consequence,

when taken into consideration with a scientific question of suchimportance. But, since you did survive, you should be thankful, for now you'll have a share of Runjeet Singh's triumph.

This day has been looked forward to with great anxiety. Didyou not see Runjeet Singh and his devotees? I understoodthey were with you.”

“Nine times fourteen makes one hundred and twenty-six,”

I repeated, “and Runjeet Singh was quite fifty years old"—“Oh, he wore out the body you knew,” interrupted mycompanion quickly, “and stepped into another. I think itbelonged to a young man who left it

,

temporarily, on

an

astral

tour. Poor fellow ! How unhappy he must have been not to

be able to take possession of it again. But such trifles are

never to be considered, of course, when a scientific problem is to

be solved. It was necessary for Runjeet Singh to remain on earth

longer than one body could possibly be made to wear, in order

to prove that you would come to life today.”“Madam,” said I feebly, “if you will change the subject I

shall be infinitely obliged. Somehow I— I feel old.”

172 THE SPHINX.

“You don't look old,” was her charming response.It made me feel more at home, for I thought I scented aflirtation.

“Tell me,” I pleaded, “could you sacrifice one you loved tothe cause of science?”

“Oh, yes,” was her instant response, and her face lighted upbeautifully. “It is wonderful — it is most desirable to be connected with science in any way! Why, only a year ago I letthem use my father”—

“If you please,” I interrupted quickly, “I should like tochange the subject again.”

“I’ll talk of something else with pleasure,” was the briskreply. “I am here today on business that may, perhaps, beof interest to us both. Will you be so kind as to tell me whenyou were born ?”“In June, 1816. Now will you be so kind as to tell me whyyou wish to know?”“To be sure. I am in search of a husband; but there arecertain requirements I must insist upon"—“I hope I have them,” I replied promptly, for she was certainly a vision of loveliness.

“I’ll be able to tell you before a great while,” she said, asshe began figuring on a tablet she carried. “You see it was solong ago, and— oh, dear! I wonder if you have Saturn inyour seventh house?”

“I did not know I had so much as one house,” I responded,“but this seems an age of surprises, so perhaps I am richer thanI thought. If I have a seventh house, and Saturn is in it, andought not to be there, I'll certainly try to get him out. I feelthat I could do anything to please you,” I added, fervently.“Why, don't you understand?” she continued, a look of perplexity on her pretty face; “your seventh house is your house

of marriage"—

“So much the better! We'll go t.cre at once.”“How absurdly ignorant you are l’”

The exclamation filled me with discomfiture. She made me

feel as if it were the most dreadful thing to be ignorant.

AN ASTROLOGIC COURTSHIP. I73

“You must remember,” I said, “that— that I am very old,according to your reckoning. Perhaps I am growing childish"—

“Nonsense !” Her face brightened. “It is more likely thatyou were accustomed to different ways when you were alive

before. I had forgotten for the moment. Now I see that wehave only to understand each other. Tell me, did you not makeuse of the truths of science when contemplating marriage?”

“No— that is— well, no! I think we depended more uponthe truths of the Goddess Love.”

“Oh, the Goddess Lovel Well, you did live in the DarkAges | No wonder history has so much to say of the crimes ofthose days.”

I presume I looked puzzled. Is it not surprising? I so disliked having her accuse me of ignorance, that I couldn't makeup my mind to ask for an explanation. It seemed to me itwould be wiser to keep up my end of the conversation as best

I could, and trust that light would break in upon me by degrees.“There were marriages in our day not prompted by love,”

I ventured, “and the general feeling was that they were veryunfortunate.”

“And the parties were blamed P” she questioned, eagerly,“and held up as warnings?”“Yes, I think so.”“Well, what was the result?”“Oh, I don't know that there was any result! The fact is

,

people don't — I mean didn't— think of that part of it veryseriously. So long a

s they were married, everybody decidedto make the best of it.”

“But when they discovered that through ignorance they hadunited themselves to one not o

f their domain — what did theydo then?”

“Then? Do you mean when they discovered that they wereno longer in love—that they did not agree?”

“That they did not agree; that is the better term. Poorthings, how could they agree, being in different domains? Butwhat did they do?"

I74 The SPHinx.

“Oh, the good ones made the best of it,

and went through

life together, and the bad ones got divorced and were shunnedby the good ones.”“But the children?”“They usually went to one of their parents or a relative.”“No, no. I mean the children o

f

the– of the good ones, as

you call them.”“Why, their parents cared for them, of course.”“You regard the matter simply from a financial point of

view,” she said, looking at me curiously. “I have read thatpeople did so regard everything in your day, but really did notbelieve it

. It is horrible, utterly horrible. Didn't these — thesegood ones know that perfect children could not be born into a

loveless home?”

“Well, really, you know, I never heard the subject mentioned.

If you'll excuse my saying so, I'll explain that it was not considered, well, exactly proper to talk about children before theywere born.”

“Not modest! Oh, shades of Uranus ! Do you mean thatyoung people were not brought up to consider the cominggeneration; that children were brought into the world withoutpreparation —”“Oh, not so bad as that! I think every mother provided a

layette.”

“Provided a layettel ” It would be impossible to describe

the tone in which she repeated my harmless statement. Suffice

it to say that it sent me into the depths of humiliation.“Did these — these good ones—actually live together, knowing that they were not married?”

“Who said they were not married?” I asked indignantly.“A ceremony was always performed by either a priest or justice o

f "–“Oh, you mean man-married ! God pays no attention to

ties of

that sort. Surely you know that. He has laid out plans

for us, and pointed the way so plainly that we can have no

excuse for going wrong.”

While she talked she had been busy with a circular map

AN ASTROLOGIC COURTSHIP. I75

she had made on a tablet—putting all

sorts of queer figures

into the spaces she had drawn on it. Suddenly she looked at

me with an air of deep disappointment.

“I'm afraid I shall be obliged to give you up,” she said. “Ihave Saturn in my seventh house, and you have Venus afflictedby Mars, Saturn and Uranus, which shows that you could notagree with the best woman that ever lived.”“Oh, but you are mistaken " I exclaimed eagerly. “I know

I could agree with you. I love”—“Nonsense !” she interrupted, patting my head a

s if I hadbeen a child; “true love is impossible between us. I have justdiscovered that you belong to the watery domain. Now, I am

a child of

the air. You and I could no

more live harmoniously

together than could the trout and the robin, and it would bedreadful for the children.”

“I don't believe it,” I protested, choosing to ignore the children. “I don't believe it for a minute. You don't know me !

Listen' I have never before seen a woman who interested me

in the least. Has not Heaven brought us together most miraculously”—“Marriage and miracles are in no way related,” she respondedcurtly.

“But let me try to persuade you”—“My friend, I have Mars afflicting Uranus !”

“Let him afflict. What I wish to say”—“Don’t you know what is indicated when Mars afflictsUranus P”

“Can't say I do.”“Well, it shows a very stubborn disposition. I warn you that

it is quite useless to try to talk me over. Do you suppose I'dmarry a man born under a sign so uncongenial to my own?

Bnt do not look so unhappy. I know a very nice girl, belonging to the earthly domain, whom I think you will like. Earthand water get along very nicely. Mud is sometimes the result,

but I think you'll be able to mould her to your ideas, and thatwill certainly be satisfactory to you, coming as you do from the

Dark Ages, when men were taught to consider themselves thesuperior sex.”

176 THE SPHINX.

“In my day, also, there was matchmaking,” I said scornfully,“and we never had a very high opinion of the matchmakers.They seldom considered the question of love or even preference

on the part of their victims.”“They were fools,” replied my guest calmly. “I’ve readabout them. They considered nothing except finances. Youare deceived in your feeling for me, just as thousands of your

fellow-beings were deceived, and all because of ignorance. I,too, am pleased with you, for the moment; but I know it mustbe temporary, because it is contrary to the great natural law

for people in antagonistic domains to love each other. I'll tellMiss Seamans about you "–“Don’t trouble yourself ' " I exclaimed petulantly. “If I can'thave you I don't want anyone.”“Don’t be absurd,” she replied. “Marriages are not lotteriesin these days. When you see how beautifully science governs

the marital relation, you'll feel differently.”

“When I see . " I exclaimed bitterly. “When shall I seeanything outside this room P I am as stiff as a poker. I wonder that you do not call a doctor”—“Call a what?”“A doctor.”“What for?”

“To cure me, of course. Do you mean to tell me you haveno doctors?”

“I never even heard of such a thing.”“What do you do when you are sick?”“We are never sick, unless we have sinned, and no one cancure us of that except ourselves. Why don't you communewith your subconscious personality?”That was the straw that broke the camel's back. It wasenough to make any man swear, and I did it vigorously. Ablue smoke arose from my lips, spelling each word in fantasticletters, and when it had cleared away I saw that I was alone.Evidently it had been more than my fair companion could stand.“I don't carel " I growled savagely. “I’m glad she's gone.She was crazy, without a doubt, and I would have told her so,had she not been so very pretty.”

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But I was destined to learn that Miss Cameron, for that wasthe young lady's name, was not crazy in the least. What shehad told me was only too true, and the worst of it all was that

I could not have revenge on Runjeet Singh, for he had givenup his borrowed body soon after proving his point regard

ing my resurrection, and had gone to a more congenial planet.I was told that he left a memorandum for the benefit of hisdevotees, telling them where he expected to be on certain dates,

that there might be an exchange of thought waves betweenthem. He intended visiting the moon first, then Mars. I'veforgotten the order in which the other planets were mentioned;

but that is neither here nor there.

I had not remained alone in my helplessness a great whilewhen Miss Seamans, of the earthly domain, called upon me.She seemed to me so much more beautiful than Miss Cameron,

in fact, more beautiful than any woman I had ever seen, that Iworshipped her at once, and I think I did not allow many minutes to pass before telling her so.

“I think it will prove as you say,” she replied sweetly. “I’msure you'll be glad to know that I have Jupiter in the seventhhouse. It does grieve me, though, to know that the sun isafflicted by Mars and square to Jupiter; but we'll be happyagain when we're reunited on the other side.”

“What do you mean? What is indicated when Marssquares off Jupiter and the Sun?”“Why, didn't you know? That signifies the death of myhusband.”

“Oh! Well, my dear, under the circumstances, do you thinkit would be wise for us to marry?”

w

“Why not? The Sun, with you, is so afflicted by themalefics that your body must become uninhabitable in a fewyears anyhow.”

It was certainly a philosophical way to look at it,

and I didmy best to accustom myself to the thought. If I had got to

die anyhow, I might as well do so as the husband of the peerless Miss Seamans, and I think I made myself quite clear on thesubject, and not entirely unsatisfactory.

178 THE SPHINX.

“Now,” said my affianced, “I have been told just how ignorant you are, and I am going to teach you. I must first teachyou to cure yourself. In these days it is a reproach to be sick.Of course you do not know that; but now I have told you, youmust bestir yourself at once. Do you know, there is not a person among my acquaintances under seventy-five, who would

think of lying in a bed like this 1"“If they were as stiff as I am ”—“Hush it will do you no good to repeat that.”“But can't you see that a fellow who has been in one positionfor one hundred and twenty-six years might be"—“Don't! please don't!” A dainty finger was laid across mylips, and two pleading brown eyes looked into mine.

“All right, I won't; but will you please tell me what I maydo?”

“Think what a nice long rest you've had More than a

hundred years of sweet, dreamless sleep ! Isn't it wonderful?How thankful you should be ' But now you are rested you

should get up and go about your work.”“My work | " I repeated, interrupting her enthusiastic discourse. “Has that been waiting for me all these years?”“What was it you were doing?”

“I had just opened a cigar-shop, and I had added a finestock of candies. There was not another shop like it in thecity. I had everything in my own hands, and if it had notbeen for Runjeet Singh”—

“If it hadn't been for Runjeet Singh you would never haveknown me,” interrupted my charming Marguerite.I was silenced at once.“And now,” she continued, “you must put that tobaccostore out of your mind, with all your other sins. You aregiven a blessed opportunity to begin life anew, and the worldis crowded with worthy work that must be done, for the burdens arising from the unholy marriages of the last century have

not yet been entirely lifted. Come!”Marguerite held out her hand fully expecting to be able toassist me to my feet; but although I longed to do so, I couldnot move a muscle.

AN ASTROLOGIC COURTSHIP. I79

“Help me!” I cried, in the abandonment of despair. “ForHeaven's sake help me or kill me ! I can endure this nolonger.”

She stooped over me, gently making passes above my head.

Her lips moved silently. Her very soul shone from her eyes

in an agony of entreaty. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed —minutes that are engraven on my soul — minutes that will gowith me into eternity.“Now, come,” she said, in a low, thrilling voice that seemedto start the blood moving in my shrunken veins. “Come, mylove; we will go to begin life together. Come!”Shall I ever forget the lingering sweetness of that last word?It thrilled my dead bones to the marrow, and I felt my sluggishheart leap within me.

“It is life " I shouted exultantly. “My beloved, you aregiving me life "“Come!” she repeated, and again she held out her hand.Oh, God, how I tried to take it! I strove until it seemedto me that my soul was wrenching itself from it

s

tenement of

clay. The agony was intense. I felt as if coals of fire burned

in my eye-sockets. It seemed as if my entire body was a

hollow cylinder, and sensitive, oh, how sensitive just as if sharp

rocks of seething lava were being churned within me, with a

heavy constant dash, that sent sharp, spluttering drops of

the

molten lava over every quivering nerve. But I endured it

bravely. I am sure I did, for suffering meant life, and lifemeant action. There was work to be done. Ah, what a

privilege to help do it! And there was Marguerite

“Come!” she repeated, for the third time. The beautifulhand was still extended, but the light o

f hope that had shone in

the dark eyes was slowly, slowly giving place to a dreadful look

of anxiety.

I struggled desperately, but I could move neither hand norfoot. Not so much as the tenth part of an inch could I move.With the exception o

f my brain I was utterly, hopelessly dead.“Put a ten-dollar gold piece on the table,” drawled a cynicalvoice outside the window. “Tell him he can have it if he will

I8O THE SPHINx.

pick it up. I'm sure the spirit of the nineteenth century cannotresist that.”

Marguerite went to the window.

“Who speaks?” she asked, in astonishment. “I see no one.If you can help us, oh, come, quickly ”Then a marvelous thing came to pass before my unaccus

tomed eyes. A puff of smoke, from a neighboring chimneyas I supposed, was blown through the open window. It gathered, black and dense, beside my bed, then grew luminous, andslowly from its shifting folds there emerged the form of Runjeet

Singh. Marguerite gazed at him, without recognition, for hehad assumed his old form, and looked exactly as I had seenhim so many years before.

“It is Runjeet Singh,” I said to her, and then to him: “Oh,master! I pray you make me as you found me.”The shade of Runjeet Singh paid not the slightest attentionto my wail of distress, but turned to Marguerite, his brillianteyes softened by tender compassion.

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“My child,” he said, “you'd better give him up. He is theincarnation of the nineteenth century — material, disgustinglymaterial That was the age of gold, you remember. Nothing was held superior to the shining metal. It was believedthat even heaven might be bought with gold. Imagine such acondition, if you can, and you will not wonder that this poor

fellow is as you see him. They were all so in that day. They

all suffered, as he is suffering now, as he must still suffer,

before they softened the metallic substance in which they

encased their soul. Why should you suffer, too, Marguerite?

It is not necessary.”Marguerite looked at him with clear brown eyes, in whichthe shadow of a hidden resolution was slowly taking shape.

“Must he bear much of such pain as this before he canarise?” she asked.

“Much more, and worse.”“But eventually he will conquer this dreadful rigidity?”

“Should he persevere he may conquer it while still in theflesh. If not, he must do so when the spirit has left the body,and then the pain will be no less intense.”

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“Then I will stay with him, Runjeet Singh. I will encouragehim, help him, love him, suffer with him, if necessary; but Iwill never leave him. He shall be victorious. We shall yet

know happiness together.”

Runjeet Singh looked at her searchingly, piercingly, but theSweet eyes did not waver.

“You will do it,” he muttered, “and there will be victory.Blessed is the man who wins the love of such a woman,— thrice

blessed when he is worthy of it.”

The heavy cloud slowly enfolded Runjeet Singh. A lightbreeze wandering through the window, dispersed it

. RunjeetSingh was gone.

Marguerite bent over me, her face shining with hope andcourage.

“Come, my love,” she said; “you have had a nice rest;

now make one more effort. Never mind the pain See | Here

is my hand; I am waiting to help you.” And to my surprise

I took her hand, slowly raised myself into a sitting posture —and the rest you know, o

r I never could have written the above.EFFIE W. MERRIMAN.

“ GOD OF BATTLES.”

A NUMBER of correspondents ask us the meaning of the phrase “Godof Battles,” to whom Lord James and Mr. Chamberlain, two members o

f

the Cabinet, have been recently appealing. Having read the New Testament they imagined the Christian God was peaceful. According to thebest authorities, the God o

f

Battles is the Jewish tribal God known as

Jehovah in our translation of

the Old Testament. Jehovah was always

recommending the slaughter and massacre of

tribes and nations—even to

the women and little children—with whom the Jews came into contact, Jehovah, or, as the name ought to b

e

more properly spelt “ Pahwe" was oftenassociated in that body o

f

Hebrew literature known as

the Old Testament

with chariots, as is mentioned in the Book of Habakkuk and in 2 Kings,

chapter 2, v.2 and other parts of

the Book and in the 68th psalm. AllOriental monarchs have had the same conception ofa sun-god surrounded

by

battle chariots. Hence the phrase “God of Battles.”— The Ceylon Independent.

I 82 The SPhinx.

Cºbe Slanetarp Cypeg.f r \

TRANSLATED FROM THE “Revelations CoMPLETEs,” ByDESBAROLLES.

I wished to prove what I felt intuitively at the beginning ofmy studies that nature is one, and to acquire this certainty

I studied with passion phrenology, and I found it as soon asI could understand it

,

in perfect accord with chiromancy. It

was the same with the system of Lavater, although often too

vague and indefinite. It was the same with the traditionalastral signatures which o

f

all my studies was the most useful to

me. And quite recently I published the Mysteries of Hand

writing, which is in perfect harmony with chiromancy, astralsignatures and the systems o

f Gall and Lavater. It could notbe otherwise, for in the contrary case my theory would have

fallen to the ground. It is therefore evident and I am the firstwho has thought o

f making these important researches andthe first to prove the same that all the sciences devoted to the

revelation of

human character give identical results.

Without doubt I might have in a measure disarmed theseattacks by giving the seven planets some commonplace nameand presenting them a

s types which in fact they are. Jupiter

I suppose, would have been the type of happy pride, Saturn of

independence and melancholy, the Sun of

the fine arts, Mars

of courage, the Moon of poetry and Venus of tenderness, and

all would have been said. I explained these types by dividingthem into seven categories, while remarking that I have enrichedthe four temperaments everywhere recognized and borrowed

from Hippocrates (who borrowed them from the Kabbala) withthree new ones, and all was for the best. The book would

have been translated entire, and popularized the science. The

Times which rigorously refused my advertisements would perhaps have been favorable.But I felt that I could never consent to such concessions,and that even in the interest o

f

the healthy and rapid concep

THE PLANETARY TYPES. 183

tion of my method, for I wish to be clear above everythingand the names of the gods of the ancient mythology are to mechiefly significant as symbols. And in effect every person

familiar with mythology (and the number is considerable,) hasonly to apply to Jupiter, the character and adventures of Jupiter,

to know at once and without further study the characteristics andphysical type of all persons bearing the Kabalistic signatures ofthe King of Olympus, ambitious, imperious, capable of dethroning even his father to take his place gallant, sensual, and ready

to take all forms even brutal ones, as that of a bull, or in the

more positive and convenient form of a shower of gold, togratify his amorous proclivities. Egotistic, inconstant, eager

for every kind of sensuous enjoyment, not despising ambrosiaand especially nectar: with so little love of the arts that he

banishes Apollo from Olympus, capricious, haughty beyond

measure ; in a word prodigal in his pleasures, and a fast liverin every sense of the word, but the god of order and calculation,

a skillful administrator and director, knowing how to manage

and control all Olympus: god of judgment and reason, recompensing his flatterers, and protecting those who please himlike Comus, Ganymede and especially Mercury his go-betweenin love affairs.

Is not that the type of Louis XIV. or the still more perfecttype of our Parisian bankers?Next comes the type of Saturn, always sad, always unlucky

in his enterprises, independent, a born rebel, whose personality

studied trait by trait, form by form retraces exactly the conspirator type in every age. Shakespeare had observed thiswhen he makes Caesar say:

Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek headed men, and such as sleep anights;

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.+ 4 +

Would he were fatter |

At the Saturnalia the slaves exchanged places with theirmasters, but only for a few days.

184 The SPHinx.

Then comes that glorious creature Apollo, charming poet,musician, god of the arts, the most beautiful, the most accomplished of a

ll

the gods, and yet always unlucky in his loves,ingenious symbol — a sterile laurel plant where he hoped to

find love. Exiled from Olympus as impractical, compelled to

wander like Homer or

Mozart over the earth singing poetry

from door to door for a living, he, the god of

the arts—inabject poverty, compelled a

t length to guard flocks of sheep

or

even swine, like the prodigal son: till the day, when resting

from his wanderings, and utilizing his leisure asa guest of

Admetus— in the quiet nights orin the heat of

the day when

the sheep and shepherds seek the shade, he sings on his lyre

the arts, poetry and nature charming the rude peasants, civilizing and making them happier.

And peace and happiness reign in that corner of the earth

so that Olympus, which is bored since his departure, becomesjealous and Jupiter convinced o

f

his merit by the voice of thepublic recalls him to the sky, and entrusts him after so many

trials with the glorious office of distributing light on the world.Then comes Mercury, the type of eloquence too often unlucky — a curse — especially in our days, small, with a weakand piercing voice, skillful, full of tact, inclined to magic, thesciences, and commerce, ready for anything even robbery,

the messenger of Olympus, Jupiter's go-between in his little

affairs with Alcmena and others, restless, always on the move,attracted to the occult sciences which he advances and elucidates

with his caduceus wand which represents the two electricities

in nature, positive and negative. Then comes Mars the bearer

of

the Sword, noisy, brutal, great lover of gambling houses and

quarrels, irritable, generous, prodigal, a glutton of pleasure and

lover of all Venus women.

Now it is the type of the Moon which represents indecision,

revery, imagination, idleness, inconstancy and sometimes poetry

and journeys by sea, for the Moon governs the tides and repre

sents also in music harmony, recalling the melancholy murmur

of

the sea that accompanies the chant of

sailors and can give

cadence but not melody.

the PLANETARY TYPES. 185

Lastly to close the series comes the gracious type of Venuswho governs song and melody. Venus the miracle of all taste

and elegance, source of production and creative force in allthings, source of charity and love. To the planet Venus belongform, tenderness and soul in artists, poets and singers.

A knowledge of the astral signatures, more exact in thedescription of each type than the most conscientious passport,

is the veritable base of chiromancy and is,

besides, its chief

interest and ornament. And I am asked to remove from mywork these incomparable descriptions ! never have I consentednor will I— for it would be to mutilate the science and replunge

it into chaos. *

Now whether these immortal types since they have beenhanded down always in the same form for six thousand years

or

more were found by the Chaldeans by observing the stars,

and by patient studies extending over centuries, is a matter thatreally does not interest me today. I have said all I have to

say on the probable influence of

the stars, in the introduction

to my Mysteries of the Hand, where I have given argumentswhich I believe are difficult to attack and impossible to refute,and there I leave the matter. The types are demonstrably true,and their origin is not worth arguing about.

MAN IMAGED IN THE STARs.

Under this title I have explained in the Mysteries of the Handwhat the ancients understood by the planetary signatures. I

will now since these types form the basis of chiromancy, make

a clear but much shorter explanation of

the signification of

these

signatures and of

their diverse influences on humanity.

“The ancient Kabbalists as we have already observed, dividedmen into seven different types, o

f

which each while receiving

the powerful influence ofa primary planet can receive also a

secondary influence from the others, explaining thus by interrelation, the infinite variety o

f

the human species. Thus it must

be clearly understood that the types of Jupiter, Saturn, Sun,

Mercury, Mars, Moon and Venus which I have already in myintroduction explained to my readers, can energetically domi

I86 the SPhinx.

nate a person, but without ever being completely isolated. Onereceives at birth the influence of several planets, for example,

Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus: Jupiter will dominate the others,

but Saturn and Venus will modify the character by adding theirown particular attributes. Thus in physiology one will neverbe nervous, bilious, or sanguine exclusively, but one can be all

three in a measure. One of these temperaments will essentially

dominate but be modified by the others.”Whether it be by astrology or by observation continually

transmitted and perfected from age to age, it is evident I think,that the ancient Magi divided mankind into seven distinct categories having each peculiar characteristics which reveal pas

sions or instincts inherent, according to them, to each of thesecategories: and it is these types that I will now describe.

IT is pleasant to think that some of us are more concerned over thereport of nine columns fallen in the Great Temple of Karnak than over the

news of an Ultimatum from the Transvaal. They are not less patriotic

than their neighbors perhaps; but the one item of news comes home to

them personally — the other is national business. It might even be urgedthat this disaster to the grandest monument of Egyptian art, one of thenoblest works of man, is infinitely more important to humanity than a warin South Africa. When that comes to an end, sooner or later, all thewhite inhabitants of the region will enjoy equal rights—a most desirableconsummation assuredly, but that will be all. Upon the other hand, cultured mortals would lament the destruction of the Great Hall of Karnak

from generation to generation through all future time. Luckily there is no

talk of that; but the collapse of nine pillars is an awful warning. It wasone item among the marvels of that marvellous construction that all its onehundred and twenty-two columns remained after 3300 years— one hundredand thirty-six, if the fourteen giants forming the avenue be counted. Wemust not say that they a

ll

remained erect, for a single one had slipped from

its base, ages ago, and rested against its neighbor, aslant. And suddenly

nine fall ata swoop ! A minute and anxious inquiry will be held, of course.Nothing is said of

an earthquake. Failing that explanation it may be

assumed that the filtering of

water through the sand caused the mischief.

If so it can be repaired with positive advantage by reopening the antiquereservoir.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, APRIL. 187

18irthbap Information amo Bailp Biowice forElpril.

Babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and indeed ifthey could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babiesat particular epochs. “Romola.”— GEORGE ELIOT.

1. Sunday. It is moderately good today. Rest.Your anniversary is favorable in the main, yet beware oflaw and disputes. Changes are indicated, but such shouldbe avoided. You will be disturbed, and many anxieties willbe in evidence, yet withal, some favors are shown you.

2. Monday. It is not important, but postpone importantaffairs and journeys.

The coming year will be a troublesome one, and care willbe needed in all your affairs. Guard your health, and lookto your family as well. Some disappointments are spokenof, and there will be much up-hill work.

3. Tuesday. Today is good for social affairs, amusements and writings.

Your anniversary is a favorable one, and some favors willbe shown you as the year advances. Gain through friends,from superiors, and by your own exertions. Considerable activity is indicated and you will increase your worldly affairs.

4. Wednesday. It is unfavorable; look sharp, avoid changes,and be careful in financial matters.

Your coming year is fraught with evil, and you will need tofortify yourself. There are unfortunate changes, financial losses,and loss of friends.

5. Thursday. It is an evil day. Look sharp to all

matters.

Your coming year is an unfortunate one, and there will bemuch that will disturb you. Sickness to yourself and to thosewithin your circle, and a probable bereavement. Litigation,opposition, and unfavorable changes and journeys. Look wellto all matters.

6. Friday. With care you can attend to ordinary matters,

but it is not promising.

You have a quiet, though unfavorable year before you.

I 88 the SPhinx.

Look to all

changes, making no additions, lest misfortune attendthe same. Sickness may enter your abode and possibly loss of

friends.7. Saturday. It is somewhat favorable today. You can

change, journey, visit and write.

! -

An active year confronts you, and in some respects a favorableone. A loss comes through changes and by some investment.Guard your expenses, and be moderate in your pleasures.

8. Sunday. It is an excellent day in general, and good for

all affairs.

You are favored this coming year, and your affairs in generalwill improve. Much activity is indicated, and you will gainthrough friends and by your own exertions. Be guarded in

writings, and careful in additions and changes. Help yourbrother in misfortune.

9. Monday. It is an anxious day. Be careful of opposi

tion and accidents.

You have a contentious year before you, and unless thegreatest care is observed in all matters, misfortune will come.Financial losses, loss of position o

ra business reverse; but with

great care you may stem the tide and save something.

Io. Tuesday. It is somewhat favorable, but avoid pleasuresand perform your duties.Both good and evil mark the progress of this year. In socialand home matters, disputes are in evidence, and care is advised.Look well to your associates, and do not oppose your superiors.Guard the health o

f yourself and family, for it will be a tryingyear.

11. Wednesday. Today is unfavorable, so look sharp to all

your affairs.Your anniversary is an unfavorable one, and there will beconsiderable misfortune a

s the year progresses. Look to

finance, avoid speculation and risk, and make no changes.

Use good judgment and avoid pleasure.

12. Thursday. It is an evil and troublesome day, so avoidchanges and writings.

Your coming year will give you cause for anxiety, and youraffairs are very likely to go wrong. Trouble from writings,business affairs, finance, and through changes or

additions.Remain quiet, and let well enough alone, and be careful o

f

your health.

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13. Friday. It is tending towards a better day, but notfavorable. Encourage social matters, but avoid controversy.

The coming year will be an active one, with your affairs in aturmoil. Both good and evil are apparent, but the latter is inthe ascendancy. Avoid litigation, guard against fire and keepyour health in order. It is an important year for you.

14. Saturday. It is in the main favorable for changes,journeys, and to visit.Your anniversary is somewhat favorable, and there will besome changes of a nature towards the betterment of your affairs.Some pleasant journey, with gain through social affairs, andnew friends.

15. Sunday. It is a mixed day, so rest.You have an active year before you with many setbacks anddisturbances. Look to business affairs, avoid controversy anddo not oppose your superiors or make changes. Guard wellyour financial affairs, for it is an important year in many ways.

16. Monday. It is unfavorable for important affairs, sostart nothing new.You have a hard year before you, with annoyances and anxieties. Look well to all matters, business or social, and do notseek to enlarge matters. Be guarded in writings, and careful inpromises. If in business, look to outstanding accounts.17. Tuesday. It is somewhat favorable. With care youmay change, but look to accidents and avoid controversy.

The coming year will be very troublesome for you. Duringpart of it your affairs will pass fairly well, but misfortune is veryapt to strike you unawares, unless the greatest care is exercised.Avoid law and disputes.

18. Wednesday. Today is an active, and in the main, afavorable day.

Change and activity mark the progress of this year, andthere will be constant disturbances. Some good is evident.and money will be coming and going freely. Look well toyour domestic affairs, and be guarded in your pleasures.

19. Thursday. It is not important but tends towards evil,so avoid new affairs and do not journey.

The coming year will be in the main a quiet one, though notfavorable. Look to your mental state, and do not encouragerestlessness. Some new ideas will be thought of, and financeswill come hard.

I90 THE SPHINX.

2O. Friday. It is an evil day in general, so look sharp toall matters.

Your anniversary is fraught with misfortune, and trouble isapt to come double-handed. Sickness, a probable bereavement,strong opposition in your worldly affairs, with trouble fromwritings and disputes. Some good friends will aid you however.

21. Saturday. Today is fairly good, so put through allimportant affairs.

Your coming year seems to favor you slightly, and with closeattention to your affairs, it will pass pleasantly. Nothing ofimportance is indicated, with the exception of some agreeablechanges. You will have new social duties and make some newfriends.

22. Sunday. It is an active though not an over-favorableday. Go to church.Your anniversary will bring you activity, with many troublesome matters in view. Look well to home and social affairs,

be guarded in friendships, and careful in financial outlay.“As you sow, so shall you reap.” If uncertain, consult anastrologer.

23. Monday. Today is generally good for all matters. Beup and doing, and make every hour count.You are favored this coming year, and your worldly interestswill increase. Additional business matters will come to light,with changes, journeys, and financial gain, according to yoursphere. So be ready, and remember good times do not lastalways.

24. Tuesday. Today is favorable also; you can journey,change, write and visit.

Your coming year promises advancement, and your affairs ingeneral should improve. Activity is denoted, with courage onyour part and aid from influential friends. Beguarded in controversy, however, and careful of accidents. You may lose bytheft or carelessness if not careful.

25. Wednesday. Look sharp today and start nothing new.Your coming year will give you much uneasiness, and matters will require your constant attention. Be guarded at alltimes in financial affairs, and make no changes or additions ofimportance. Do not oppose your superiors and guard yourspeech.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, APRIL. I9 I

26. Thursday. It is an unfavorable day. Remain inactiveand attend to your duties.

Your coming year is an unfavorable one and it brings misfortune and trouble, unpleasantness in the home and social disturbances. Guard well your pleasures, look to your health andkeep an even temper. Many anxieties will be apparent, andsome due to carelessness.

27. Friday. Today is favorable in the main. Undertakematters you have delayed, avoid controversy, and be careful iftraveling.

You are confronted with an active year and your generalaffairs will prosper. Some strong opposing conditions areindicated however, and you may suffer from theft or fire. Protect your property, and do not yield too freely to pleasure.

28. Saturday. It is moderately good, so use your judgment.

You have an active year before you, and in the general run,it favors you. Care is needed in all business matters, inchanges and financial affairs, lest the money go faster than itconnes.

29. Sunday. It is generally fair today. Rest.Your coming year will run along with matters favoring youslightly, and some slight changes are in order. You gainsocially and by good friends and your own exertions.

30. Monday. It is not promising. Look carefully to allyour affairs and postpone important matters.The coming year will bring you many trials, and you willneed to be guarded at all times. Avoid changes, look to yourhealth for sickness is about you, and do not attempt too muchin your undertakings. With your attention directed to caringfor what you have, the year will pass in your favor.

ASTOR.

The above birthday information is for those whose birthdays occur thismonth regardless of the year and the hour. Any one born, for instance, onApril 25 will experience during the year some of the conditions mentioned on that day.

The daily advice is worth considering and watching, and if followedwill bring quicker and surer results. On evil days always keep still, foreven if you try to push matters you will find eventually they will not amountto anything.The good or bad fortune of a person on any particular day depends

mainly on the particular conditions operating in the nativity, and the redor black degrees the Moon is transiting in the speculum.—ED.

I92 THE SPHINX.

(50 Cºbou and ſºlo Likewige.

“WHEN Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travail, coming towards him who was a hundred years of age; he receivedhim kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sitdown: but observing that the old man eat and 'prayed not, norbegged for a blessing on his meal, he asked him why he did notworship the God of heaven. The old man told him that heworshipped the fire only and acknowledged no other god. Atwhich answer Abraham grew so zealously angry that he thrustthe old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils ofthe night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man wasgone God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger

was: he replied thrust him away because he did not worship

thee. God answered him, I have suffered him these hundredyears, although he dishonored me: and couldst thou not endure

him one night when he gave thee no trouble? Upon this saiththe story, Abraham fetched him back again, and gave him hospitable entertainment and wise instruction.” Go thou and dolikewise, and thy charity will be rewarded by the God of Abraham.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous,

God hath written in those stars above.

— Longfellow.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. I93

Cbe Elmerican (5rammar of £13trology.

THE ASPECTS OF MARs.

Mars in conjunction with or afflicting %upiter.Prodigality, excessive generosity, waywardness, foolishness with money; indiscretion, frequent trouble: theseaspects frequently cause the native heavy losses of money

either by betting or speculation, or false friends; he may

also suffer damage by fire; tends to destroy his issue.

Mars in good aspect to 5upiter.Brave, free and generous, always ready to help others.

Mars in conjunction or evil aspect with Saturn.Very malicious, liable to imprisonment.

Mars in good aspect to Saturn.Brave, bold, firm, steady and persevering but exacting; anexcellent soldier or butcher, with strong nerves and great

confidence.

Mars in conjunction or evil aspect with Herschel.Very malicious and daring, quarrelsome and liable toimprisonment.

Mars in good aspect to Herschel.Bold and self-confident, headstrong, generous, brave; agood soldier or surgeon.

Mars afflicting Neptune.Brings changes and sometimes accidents.

Mars in good aspect to Neptune.

Gives ability as a physician or surgeon and makes one fond

of curious things.

THE ASPECTs of JUPITER.

5upiter in conjunction or good aspect to Saturn.Wealth or property by legacy or marriage, if Jupiter beLord of the seventh house and in the second. The native

also holds important offices.

I94 THE SPHINX.

Jupiter afflicted by Saturn.Loss of money or property by law, or through trustees;

the native often enters into speculation and loses heavy

sums; he is enthusiastic in religion and often unfortunatein business.

Jupiter in conjunction or good aspect with Herschel.Benefit by legacy; it also tends to success in business andin religious occupations.

Jupiter in bad aspect to Herschel.Loss by litigation and difficulty with property or inheritance, the native not infrequently losing it all; it is notgood for business or success, threatening sudden and heavy

losses.

Jupiter in bad aspect to Neptune.

The native will live upon charity at some period of his life.Jupiter in good aspect to NeptuneBrings success in speculation and some invention.

THE ASPECTs of SATURN.

Saturn in conjunction or bad aspect with Herschel.In the first they make the mind crafty, subtle, maliciousand murderous.

Saturn in good aspect to Herschel.

Of no consequence.

Saturn in good aspect to Neptune

Makes the native good-hearted; brings success in financeand speculation.

Herschel in good aspect to Neptune

Makes one interested in the occult, fond of experiments

and explorations.

[To be continued.]

NOTES AND QUERIES. 195

Tºlote2 and Querieg.

W. A. Asks:— If a planet be in the sign following the oneon the cusp of the house in which it is situated, will it exert asmuch or greater influence in the house in which it is situated

as in the following? For instance: 29° Libra is on the cusp

of the 2d, and 29° of Scorpio is on the cusp of the 3d, withJupiter in 25° of Scorpio. Will Jupiter have more power in the2d than in the 3d house? Suppose Scorpio were on the cusp

of the 2d, and Sagittarius on the 3d, with Jupiter in the firstpart of Sagittarius?

[In the first example cited, Jupiter would bear rule in the 3d houseuntil he had risen five degrees above the cusp. In the second instancehis rule would belong to second house affairs, until he had ascended beyond

the 5° orb, after which he will have entered the house of Life.]

A correspondent writes:– Can any of your readers give theaddress of Julius Erickson, who made the remarkably correct

forecasts based on the horoscope of the inauguration of Cleveland, and published in the Arena?

[The last address which we have seen of Mr. Erickson is Station “F,”St. Louis, Mo.]

PANDIT Jyckish AM, jailor of Jallander Jail, India, has writtento ask if there are any books that can be procured on the subject

of a weather guide, and also to show the rising and falling of the

rates of food, grains, etc., by the influence of the stars?

[Will some of our elder brothers try to supply this needed and usefulinformation, which strikes us as being so sensible and practical?]

Aziz UDDIN AHMAD KHAN, M.D., of Moradabad, India,

writes to ask if any of our readers knows the book, “The Talisman,” by Rabbi Soliman, or can recommend a work bearing onthe subject of talismans?

196 THE SPHinx.

Eðitorial.

A Re-issue of the August, September, October and Novembernumbers is now ready. The price to non-subscribers is fifty

cents a copy.

Those of our subscribers who would like the January Birthdays can have them by writing for them.

THE distinguished editor of the London Graphic has suggested our publishing letters received about our “Daily Advice,” and in another column we take pleasure in doing so.

From experience we find the “Daily Advice” in connectionwith the “Life” Speculum invaluable, and if watched revealswhat many would call “astonishing coincidences.”

EveRY lady should be able to draw a map of the heavens forany particular moment of time, as easily as she now drawsa map of the earth for any particular period in history. Formerly this art was only taught to kings and queens, priests andscholars, but now every well-informed woman is beginning

to study it and regulate her life and the lives of her childrenby it

,

and many men will cease to drift and will guide themselves with understanding. To the coming woman a

s having

greater leisure, we look to preach the doctrine of planetary

influence and to teach it to her husband, son and brother.

IN Pearce's Tert Book instruction is given for calculating a

series of

new directions termed “rapt aspects.” Placidus seemsto have been aware of these arcs. In his comments on thenativity o

f Cardinal Panciroli, page 271, he calls attention to themundane square aspect of

the Sun and Mars, which continuesfor many years, owing to their being carried onward by a

universal converse motion.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 197

TLetterø to the EOitor.

DENIsoN, TEXAS, Feb. 18, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphin.r:

I was a good deal interested in reading Kymry's apology inyour December issue, for his mistake in setting the figure forthe nativity of President Kruger. If the fancied resemblance tohis friend is not misleading, and the “powerful nature, capable

of immense feats of endurance and courage, masterful ambition,

born to command,” depend upon Mars as ruler of his horoscope, he will have to make a change of about twelve hours inhis estimate of him; but in that event what will he do with

Saturn and Herschel in the midheaven? I fear he has got himself (or Kruger) in a bad box. However, let not the criticsbe too severe. Our astrology originated in the north temperate zone, and really has nothing to do with those born onthe other side of the equator. Much more will have to bedone than turning a natal figure topsy-turvy and backside front,

to adopt the science to the other hemisphere. How about thelords of the Signs P Saturn with us rules the winter signs

owing to his frigid nature, and the Sun rules Leo on account of .the great heat we experience in August. At least that is whatPtolemy tells us, and it would never do to contradict the“Prince of astrologers.” His language is

,

Cancer and Leo areassigned to the Moon and Sun, “because they approach nearerthan the other signs to the zenith o

f

this part of the earth, andthereby cause warmth and heat;” and Saturn, “since h

eis cold

and inimical to heat,” occupies the signs opposite, “which are

ofa cold and wintry nature.” If we are to upset the system in

one case then we should do so in the other. Probably it would be

better (certainly safer) for our astral professors to confine theirwork of casting horoscopes to their own hemisphere. But if

there are any of

them who are not disposed to accede to this suggestion, but endorse the method of

the books, will they please cast

198 THE SPHINX.

a horoscope for a person born exactly on the Equator P This

is a problem worthy the skill of a Placidus or a Partridge.

Yours truly,B. C. MURRAY.

CHICAGO, IL.L., March 2, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphin.r:

I very much regret the error I find I must have made inwriting “Full Moon” instead of “New Moon" on page 108, line13 from the top, in “The Art of Raising Poultry.” Pleasemention it in your next issue, as it should read “New Moon,”

for that is half the secret; viz., from the New to nearly the Full,

or while the Moon is increasing in light.

I am very thankful for the very nice manner in which youhave brought out the article, and have written many friends of

the December and March issues, and hope it will add considerably to their sale.

Yours truly,L. CHADwick.

LONDON, Feb. 22, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphina :

I am delighted with your February number. It is a gem,and quite unrivalled; artistic, informing, and in every way satisfactory. You are sure to capture the ground, and it is certainly

quite a pleasure to write for it.

Yours sincerely,SEPHARIAL.

LONDON, Feb. 15, 1900.

To the Editor of

The Sphina :

As soon as I can, I will set to work on an article for your

magazine, which I consider excellent, and in advance of anything we have on this side of

the water.

I think “Price's Horoscope" is in my “Private Lessons.”He taught me much about the science, but had not a bit of

LETTERS to THE EDITOR. I 99

faith in Primary Directions, neither had Smith the latter part

of his life. They both went over entirely to the Secondary.

You have my best wishes in every way.

Yours faithfully,E. RAPHAEL.

LONDON, Feb. 27, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphin.r:

I am going to send you “Star Lore” for March, and regretI have been too busy the past twelve months to write an articlefor your useful magazine. You are doing a good and noblework.

With every good wish, sincerely yours,ZADKIEL.

THE Even ING World,

NEw York, March 15, 1900.To the Editor of The Sphina ;

In reply to your note would say, the “Daily Advice" forMarch 4, was inserted on March Io, because many letters had

been received asking for the advice for that day; which hadbeen omitted owing to lack of space.

Very truly yours,

J. J. JENNINGs.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 26, 1900.

To the Editor of The Sphin.r.

I suppose THE SPHINX will appear as soon as this letter isgone. I hope so, as I depend a good deal on the “DailyAdvice.” I find it is most helpful in connection with my Speculum. The latter is a treasure, and it is most extraordinary theway it tallies with my daily life. I hope you are entirely wellby this time, and that the enforced rest for your brain has doneyou good.

With cordial wishes, I am,Sincerely your friend,

NELLIE F. BINCKLEY.

2OO The SPHINX.

STURGIs, Mich., Dec. 27, 1899.

To the Editor of The Sphina º

It is truly a pleasure to receive THE SPHINx even if it comeslate. The “Daily Advice” is worth very much to me, and Ifind it very true, for I consult it daily and am guided by it. Myreligion is astrology and I never knew myself until I began to

study it. I wish you every success in your publication.

Yours truly,T. C.

MARSHALL, TEXAS, JAN. Io, 1900.

To the Editor of

The Sphina º

What is the matter with THE SPHINx? I need the “DailyAdvice” in my business, and I wish I could get it on the firstof each month.

Respectfully,L. H. HENLEy, M.D.

Nors.-The last four letters are inserted to show the demand there is for the “Daily Advice.”- Ed.

It was from a poem of

the Sibyl of

Cumoea that the principal dogmas

of Christianity were taken. Constantine in the fine discourse which he

pronounced before the assembly of

the saints, shows that the fourth eclogue

of Virgil is only a prophetical description of the Savior; and if that was

not the immediate object of

the poet, it was that of

the Sibyl from whom

he borrowed his ideas, who being filled with the spirit of

God announced

the birth of

the Redeemer. He believed that he saw in this poem the miracle o

f

the birth of

Jesus ofa Virgin, the abolition of

sin by

the preaching o

f

the gospel, and the abolishment of punishment by the grace of the

Redeemer. He believed he saw the old serpent overthrown and the mor

tal venom with which he poisoned human nature entirely deadened. In

this eclogue there are many other passages which might have been said to

be copies of

the Hebrew prophets, who apply it themselves to Jesus Christ,

such at

least is the general opinion of

the church. St. Augustine like

others has been persuaded of it,

and has pretended that the lines of Virgil

can only be applied to Jesus Christ. Finally the most intelligent modernsmaintain the same opinion. Voltai RE.

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Vol. II. MAY, 1900. No. 4.

Che Regurrection of Egypt.

A peculiar fascination surrounds every detail of life in earlyEgypt. For al

l

other empires, except perhaps the Babylonian,

can be assigned with more or

less certainty some point of historicorigin. The days of the founders of Rome o

r

of Athens are

but the middle ages of history when compared with the days of

Khufu or of Mena. India does not claim for her earliest Vedas

an antiquity exceeding four thousand years. The sacred writ

ings of China count less than a thousand more. A thousand

years earlier still, the beginnings of Babylonia become very dim.

On the banks of the Nile alone do we find, centuries before the

date of

the Accadian Sargon, a settled monarchy and a constituted state, an elaborate ritual and organic hierarchy, a specific

architecture and a copious alphabet. Hence it is that the principal anomaly which usually blurs our conception o

f antiquity,

namely, the interference of

an element alien to the environment,

in the formation of

the customs ofa race, more particularly

when that race has been transplanted from some wholly diversesoil, is absent from the horizon o

f Egypt; and the picture which

we may draw of Egyptian civilization has its source, its develop

ment, and its consummation in the conditions of Egypt alone.

No feature of attraction is wanting in that remarkable scene.

The stately river, the source of perennial life and freshness to

the entire land, the long line of majestic temples crowning thebanks, the laughing population crowding it

s waters, the dances,

the games, the songs, the wrestlings, the perpetual feasts, the

boats of pleasure jostling with the sacred boats of the dead, all

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2O2 THE SPHINX.

these things make up a picture which, set in the dazzling clearness of the cloudless sky, leaves a charm that can neither be

rivaled nor forgotten.

That picture, too, demands no painful effort of the imagina

tion to fill up for ourselves from broken and disjointed details.We are not called upon, as in classic writings, to piece out intosuch consistency as we may, the fragmentary hints of social lifelaboriously gathered from chance allusions hidden in a score of

different writers. Nor need we content ourselves with descriptions of events written centuries after their occurrence. We can

go straight to the fountain head, and consult the original records.

On the huge gate-towers of the temples, on the walls, on theenormous sarcophagi, on the architraves, on the pillars of the

immense buildings, we find the deeds of the princes set out inthe sacred hieroglyphs. For the battle of Lake Regillus wemust trust to the traditions preserved by Livy. For the firstgreat battle of Megiddo, which preceded by hundreds of years

the famous encounter wherein Josiah perished long before everRegillus was fought, we have the cotemporaneous account of

the conqueror Thothmes and the lists of the spoils drawn up by

royal officers. Nay, more, the monuments of Egypt give usnot descriptions alone, but actual representations of the scenes.Of the triumphs celebrated by the renowned Julius, what traceis left for posterity to gaze upon P But the triumphs of Ramesesand of Seti, which took place well-nigh as long before the timeof Caesar as Caesar's day was before our own, live yet in every

detail. The garments, the ornaments, the countenances, eventhe color of the hair of the different races which took part in

those processions, all may be seen today upon the walls of thepalaces which witnessed them. Of Moses and of Solomon, of

the founder of Rome, nay of the great apostle of the Gentiles,

we possess not even a traditional likeness. But the features of

Pharaoh may be as familiar to us as they were to his adoring

subjects. A triple enclosure formed by massive columns, ofinfinite pathos in their lonely grandeur, is all that is left to tell

us how the earth-shaking Poseidon was worshipped in his home

at Paestum. But every feature of the procession which trod the

THE RESURRECTION OF EGYPT. 2O3

long aisles of Karnak, the vessel of purification, the wings onthe sacred scribe, the company of the singers, the quadruple

ranks of priests, the sacred ark borne upon their shoulders, the

cherubim with outstretched wings shadowing the Deity enthroned between, have a

llbeen preserved for our inspection, no

less than the words of

the solemn litany which the worshippers

addressed to Ra, the unseen Light.Nothing is more striking than the knowledge of science which

the priests of Egypt are more and more generally admitted to

have possessed, in proportion as the facts are more carefully

investigated. What architect of the present day would undertake to erect a building, more than four hundred feet high, full

of

chambers of

the most elaborate description which should

never need repair for six thousand years? What other nationnot only discovered the transcendental relation between radiusand circumference — the foundation of all curvilinear measurement—but utilized it as a principle of architectural construction?

Where else shall we find a building oriented with such perfectaccuracy that, if Mr. Flinders Petrie be correct, the minute displacement wrought in the course o

f ages represents (and consequently measures) the secular variation due to a recondite

cosmical force? Where else shall we find an antique kalendar

based on a correct knowledge of

the motion of

the earth?

What other people knew, as Dr. Brugsch and M. Maspero aver,

the proper motion of the sun in space; or

who devised thelovely cycle o

f

the herald star, which measured whole ages by

the rising light as it dawned for a moment on the eastern

horizon?

From every portion of that country the past has yielded up

its

records. Egypt, for so many centuries the land of the buried,

has suddenly become the land of

the risen, dead; and the message which the long-silenced voice proclaims a

s with a tongue

of

fire is the primitive belief in the divine origin and end of man.Everywhere and always throughout ancient Egypt is heraldedthe same doctrine of

eternal Day. From the orbit of the earth,

from the pole-star of

the heavens, from the dawning of Sirius,

from the radiance of

the sun, from the renewal of

the moon, from

2O4 the Sphinx.

the waters of the river, from the palaces, from the temples, from

the very cere-cloths of the rifled dead, comes forth a voice

which for ages has been hushed in the grave; and that voice

with startling clearness bears testimony to a judgment beyond

the tomb, and the Fatherhood of the unseen God.W. MARSHAM ADAMS.

O MIGHTY Fate, that over us miserable mortals rulest supreme, with

what small means are thy ends affected 1– with what scornful ease andmean instruments does it please thee to govern mankind It is an awfulthing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of

some tiny wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of Fate, and see

how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance on going down thisstreet or that, or on someone else's doing something else somewhere, now

or a hundred years ago. Let each man think of the circumstances of hislife, and how its lot has been determined. The getting up a little earlieror later, the eating of this dish or the other, may influence a

ll

the years and

actions of

his after life. When Fate wills that something shall come to

pass, she sends forward a million of

little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. Some call the doctrine o

f destiny a dark creed; but, for me,

I would fain think it a consolatory one. It is better, with all one's sinsupon his head, to deem one's self in the hands o

f Fate, than to think thatwe, so despicably weak and vain, can b

e

the workers of

our future sorrow

or happiness. If we depend on our own strength, what is it against mighty

circumstance? Look back at the whole of your life, and see how Fate has

mastered you and it.

Think of your disappointments and your successes.

Has your striving governed one or the other? A fit of indigestion comesbetween you and honor and reputation; a fi

t

of poverty makes a rascal of

you who were an honest man; ora run of

luck makes an honest man for

life of you, who are a rascal. Who sends the illness? who deprives you of

your worldly goods? or

who shuffles the cards and brings trumps, honor,

virtue and prosperity back again? You call it chance; aye, and so it is

chance that when the floor gives way, and the rope stretches tight, the poor

wretch before St. Sepulchre's clock dies. Only with us, clear-sighted mortals as we are, we can't see the rope by which we hang, and know not when

or

how the drop may fall.THACKERAY.

PRINCE PRISDAN. 2O5

ºrince Yrigoan.

THE NATIVITY OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, PRINCE PHRA ONGCHOU, CHULA CHOM KLOA, PRINCE PRISDAN CHOOMASI

OF SIAM, A BUDDHIST MONK IN CEYLON.

SIR Edwin ARNOLD gives the very appropriate sub-title of“The Great Renunciation” to the entrancing poem in which heportrays the sublime career of “Sakya-Muni,” the Founder ofBuddhism. Indeed, there is no part of the narrative which isso full of human interest, so pathetic, and ennobling withal, asthat which describes Prince Siddhartha's renunciation of his

home, his kingdom, his beautiful wife and his only child, for the

sake of the suffering world. Out into this world passed the heirof a King, in the garb of a mendicant, and for six long years hestrove with more than human perseverance to discover the cause

of sorrow and the remedy for it. At last, the Truth dawned

upon him at

the Bodhi-Tree in Buddha-Gaya, a spot sacred tomany millions of human beings, and he, now the EnlightenedOne, the Buddha, came forth from his seclusion to proclaim to

the world the gospel of Truth and Love, which has done so

much to civilize a very large portion of humanity. Of this

doctrine, Renunciation, forms the cornerstone. It is by givingup the allurements o

f

the world that one can realize the Truth.

Renunciation is the price of Enlightenment. All forms of selfish

ness, the last vestiges of

lust and desire must be got rid of, before

one could obtain emancipation. Stern though this Doctrinemay seem to the ordinary mind, it exerted a powerful influenceover those who heard the Master. Thousands flocked to his

standard; Princes forsook their thrones to don the garb ofa

Bhikkhu, and ladies of the highest rank left their homes of

luxury to tread the rough path of Renunciation, which ulti

mately led to the Temple of Truth. During the lifetime of

Buddha himself, his Gospel was carried to the distant parts

of India by willing disciples, who had renounced everything to

serve the cause of humanity. Nor did this Missionary Spirit

2O6 the SPhinx.

THE NATIVITY OF His Royal HIGHNESS, PRINCE PRISDAN.

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Moon's Oblique Descension, 14 14 Earth . - 2

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enkindled by the Master cease with his demise. On the contrary it continued to grow in vigor, until it reached it

s

climax

in the reign of Asoka the Great, in whose time, two centuries

after the death of Buddha, systematic efforts were made with

signal success to preach Buddhism in foreign countries. Underthe patronage o

f

this mighty and philanthropic Emperor, Buddhist Missionaries traversed the length and breadth of the then

known world, carrying the “Dharma” over the snow-clad peaks

of Himalaya into the furthest regions of China in the East, into

the wild wastes of

Siberia in the North, to Egypt and Greece in

the West, and the Island of Ceylon in the South. The famous

pillar inscriptions of Asoka, record the religious embassies sent

by that Monarch to the Greek Kingdoms of Antiochus of Syria,

Ptolemy of Egypt, Antigonus of Macedon, Margas of Cyrene

and Alexander of Epiros. There is nothing in the history of

the world which can be compared with this mighty effort of the

Great Emperor and the Missionaries of

his time, to propagate

what they regarded as truth among mankind. And in this great

event, the Mission to the Island of Ceylon stands conspicuous

not only on account of

its

results but also on account of

the personages connected with it

.

Buddhism was introduced into this

Island in the reign of King Tissa, B.

C.

306 by Mihinda, theonly son o

f Asoka, who, like the Master he served, renounced

the birthright of an Empire to work for the welfare of

the

world. His noble efforts were seconded by his sister Sangha

mitta, who, also having entered the Order, followed her brother

to the Island accompanied by a party of nuns, and bringing

over with her a branch of

the Bo-tree at Buddhaya-Gaya, which

she planted at Anuradhapura, the ancient capital of the Island,

which is still standing, and is acknowledged to be

the oldest

historical tree in the world. (In passing it may be mentionedthat this city abounds in Buddhist ruins of great antiquity andmagnificence, pointing to the high state of civilization, which thepeople o

f

this Island had attained long before the Christian Era).The name of this Princess is still revered throughout the lengthand breadth of the Island. These heroic souls converted the

whole of Ceylon to Buddhism, and though twenty-three cen

2O8 THE SPHINX.

turies have since rolled on, the impress of their self-sacrificing

work still remains. Buddhism continued to flourish in India

for several centuries after the time of Asoka, but about the tenthcentury of the Christian Era, it was overthrown by the Bhramanical sects, whose opposition, the Church of the day sunk insloth and ignorance was unable to resist. The Muhammadaninvader completed the work of extermination begun by theHindu, and today we witness the strange spectacle of effortsmade by alien Buddhists to reintroduce Buddhism to the land

of its

birth. Though Buddhism thus lost its

hold on India, theneighboring Island o

f Ceylon ever stood loyal to it,

and at

thepresent day in spite o

f

the pecuniary aid and patronage extended

to Christianity by the British Government, and the forces which

have been marshalled against it by various Christian Missionary

Societies, a great revival of

the ancient religion has set in,_

a revival, due mainly to the efforts of Col. H. S. Olcott. The

history of Ceylon records not a few instances of Royal Princes

who, giving up everything, joined the order of Bhikkhus.The last scion of a Royal stock to renounce all worldly tiesand become a Buddhist monk in the Island, is Prince Prisdan

Choomasi of

the Royal Family of Siam, whose horoscope We

now introduce to the reader.

The subject of our natus is the youngest son of H. H. Pheachou Rajawarawansa Thaa, Royal Architect, and of the late

Guna Noi, daughter of H. E. Phya Mantri, Minister of Financeand wealthiest nobleman o

f

the time, and was born at

the Old

Palace of

his grandsire H. M. Ramadhibodi III, at Bangkok,on Monday the twenty-third day of February, 1852, at 9.5 P.M.

He is a direct descendant of the Third King of Siam.

First King of present dynasty

Second King

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Third King Fourth King

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Prince Prisdan's father present King—A,- Y

Prince Prisdan's elder brother. Prince Prisdan. Crown Prince of Siam.

PRINCE PRISDAN. 209

The 19th degree of Libra rises with the Moon and Venussetting and Mercury trine to the ascending degree. Mars culminates trine to Jupiter, and Saturn and Herschel are closely

conjoined in the 7th. By description the prince is short instature and sparsely but strongly built. The face inclines to thepyriform in shape, with regular and delicate features. The mouth

is refined and finely chiselled. The forehead high and theregions above the eyes, the perceptive organs in particular,

highly developed. The eyes are small, bright and sparkling,and the general features of the body proportionate and wellformed.

The prince is a highly cultured and polished gentleman andan engineer by training.

As a child his early years were spent at the palace of hisfather amidst every luxury and pleasure, and at ten years of age

the prince was nigh unto death, having sustained a severe fall

from the top of an artificial “mountain” of about thirty feet high.

For a time he lay unconscious and his life despaired of, buthappily he suffered no fatal injuries. The primaries responsibleWere

Moon square Mars zod d.d. . . . . . . . . . Io.o8

Sun semi-square Saturn zod d.d. . . . . . . . Io.32

After this accident matters appear to have gone on smoothly,

till the year 1868, when he suffered a severe affliction by thedeath of his father: the closest primaries being

Moon conjunction Saturn zod d.d. . . . . . . . I 5.54Moon conjunction Herschel zod d.d. . . . . . . 16.33

Moon conjunction Saturn mundo d.d. . . . . . . 16.38

in addition Herschel transmitting the M.C. and Saturn the square of Sun (R).

A glance at the above table would show, that in conformitywith the custom obtaining in most countries, Prince Prisdan's

father should in the usual order of succession have become King

of Siam, but it was destined otherwise, for his uncle the present

King's father succeeded to the throne on the death of the thirdKing. Again Prince Prisdan's eldest brother on the demise ofthe fourth King, had a clear claim to the Kingship of Siam, but

2 IO the SPHINx.

his title to the throne as in the case of his father was not recognized, for the reason that in Siam the eldest male member of the

Royal family is preferred to others and is chosen king. Hadthis peculiar national custom been allowed to continue to be inforce, there may yet have been a chance for Prince Prisdan to

succeed to the throne, failing his elder brother, to the exclusionof the Crown Prince, but it appears that things have sincechanged, and the succession of the Crown Prince is firmly

secured. On the other hand, considering this nativity by thelight of the stars, it is a most unlikely horoscope to bring sudden elevation, for the scheme is by no means a fortunate one, itbeing heavily weighted on the side of misfortune.

Not to digress any further, the Prince after being given anelementary education, was sent in 1871 (Moon sextile Sun zodd.d. 19.2O) the same year as that of his marriage, to England,by the present King to complete his education. He enteredKing's College, London, in the Applied Science and Art Department to qualify as a Civil Engineer. He had a brilliantcollegiate career and graduated from King's College with honors.

He returned to Siam on a visit in 1875, and in 1876 was appointed Special Commissioner to report on Government GoldMines. At this stage he was under the following directions:

Sun trine Mars zod d.d. . . . . . . . . . . 20.31

Sun parallel Moon zod d.d. . . . . . . . . . 20.51

Moon trine Jupiter conv mundo . . . . . . . . 20.53Sun sextile Moon conv mundo . . . . . . . . 21.oi

Moon parallel Sun zod d.d. . . . . . . . . . 24.16

He was sent to England in 1877 (M.C. trine Moon mundo25.20) and apprenticed to Sir John Hawkshaw, Consulting Engineer to the British Government, to gain practical experience

in Engineering, also to study the working of the Royal Mint,London, and acquire a knowledge of the employment of torpedoes for coast defences. It is said that when at College, hisfavorite subjects were Applied Science and Mechanics; and latterly he so distinguished himself in Civil Engineering, that hewas awarded a Silver Medal from the London Society of Arts,

for proficiency in Engineering and Architecture, and was also

PRINCE PRISDAN. 2 I I

made an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

Among the other literary honors conferred upon him during hisresidence in Europe, it may be mentioned that he was made an

Associate of King's College, London, Member of the Archaeological Society of Portugal, and a Member of the OrientalSociety of France.

For his clear and bright intellect and varied ability, we havethe airy sign Libra rising, with Mercury in the 5th house inAquarius trine to the ascending degree, sextile to the Moonin Aries and par dec with Jupiter.

The strongest period in the life of the Prince was from 1877to 1885. During these years the primaries in force were:

Sun trine Mars mundo d.d. . . . . . . . . . 26.13

Sun sextile Venus conv mundo . . . . . . . . 26.51

Moon parallel Herschel zod d.d. . . . . . . . 29.oo

Sun and Mars rapt parallel . . . . . . . . . 29.26

Moon and Jupiter rapt parallel . . . . . . . . 29.39Moon parallel Jupiter conv in mundo . . . . . . 29.45

Sun conjunction Venus zod d.d. . . . . . . . . 33.26

During the operation of the above and while still serving asapprentice, Prince Prisdan held in 1879 the first office in the

Diplomatic Service (Sun sextile Venus con mundo) as Interpreter to the Siamese Mission to England and Germany, whenhe was decorated by the Emperor of Germany and by his Sovereign. Next he was appointed second Secretary to the SiameseSpecial Embassy, to present the Grand Cordon of the MostExalted Order of the White Elephant of Siam to H. M. QueenVictoria, Monsieur Grévy, President of France, Prince of Walesand Crown Prince Frederick of Germany, and to effect certaintreaty revisions with the Great Powers, the Siamese Foreign

Minister being Ambassador. He was then decorated by H. M.the Queen, Emperor of Germany, and the President of theFrench Republic, the King of Siam making him Grand Officerof the Crown of Siam and Colonel of the Van Guard. Then he

was appointed Special Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin and Vienna,

as bearer of wedding presents to the Crown Prince of Austria,

and Prince William of Germany the present Emperor. On this

2 I 2 The SPHINX.

occasion he was installed in the high office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Courts of St. James,Berlin, Vienna, the Quirinal, Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen,Stockholm, the Hague, Brussels, and to the French and American Republics with orders to take up his residence in London.Finding duties in connection with twelve Courts too arduous,

he removed his headquarters to Paris where he founded a Lega

tion. Later on a successor was appointed, when he was recalled.For his services to his country, notably for regulating the Spirit

Traffic with England, France and the United States of America,

he was invested by His Majesty of Siam with the Princely rank

of Phravarawansa Dhaa Pha Ong Chou, the Grand Cross of theOrder of Siam and commander of the Family Order of Chula

Chom Kloa, brought over by Royal Commission to London by

the King's half-brother. Whilst in Europe the Prince was a

member of many of the leading literary and social Clubs inLondon and other Capitals, and in the enjoyment of everyluxury. Honors came thick upon him and fortune favored him.On his return to Siam a Royal Proclamation was issued, setting

forth his services and vast estates were conferred on him, to

enable him to live in State. But his career in Siam though itopened with such bright prospects was of very short duration.

For a time he was in high favor with the King, and held theposition of Cabinet Minister, and Minister of War (this wasunder the direction of Sun conjunction with Venus), but somehow or other the relations between the Prince and his Royal

relative became strained, and unwilling to abide in the serviceof a country whose King he could not please, he threw up officeand left Siam. This was in 1886. Leaving Siam meant nothing

short of giving up almost everything. To add to his sorrowand misfortune his mother died during this unhappy year.

The closest primaries responsible for these troubles were:Moon square Mercury zod d.d. . . . . . . . 33.51

Sun square Herschel conv mundo . . . . . . 34.06

Sun square Saturn conv mundo . . . . . . . 35.06

further Saturn was in transit over the M. C. in 1886 and Saturn

did not in this case belie his reputation in bringing ruin and

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disaster; especially as he was powerful for evil at birth. Thesucceeding year 1887 was no better.

In 1890 the prince visited Japan and was invested with theOrder of the Rising Sun, this was under the direction of Sunconjunction with the Moon zod d.d. 37.52.

After his visit to Japan, tired of a roving and idle life thePrince once more thought of service. In 1891 he transferredhis allegiance to the British Government, and entered the service

of the Native States of Perak, as Engineer to the Public WorksDepartment, his early technical training standing him in good

stead. He was afterwards appointed Assistant Magistrate andSettlement Officer of Lower Perak; and he served the country

of his adoption with ability and zeal, till the time of his entranceto the Priesthood, in 1896.The directions for service under British Government.

Moon opposition Jupiter zod d.d. . . . . 39.1o 1891

Moon conjunction Sun conv mundo . . . . 39.18 1891

Moon sextile Mars zod d.d. . . . . . . 41.43 1893

Moon sextile Herschel conv mundo . . . . 42.32 1894

Sun sextile Jupiter conv mundo . . . . . 42.39 1895

Moon sextile Saturn conv mundo . . . . 43.31 1895

With regard to his ill-luck and unsuccessful career, we have

Mars influencing the meridian in the sign of his detriment,enormously powerful for mischief, and square to Saturn andHerschel; and the Moon, Saturn and Herschel opposing theascendant. The Sun is also weak by reason of his proximity

to Neptune and par dec with Saturn. Jupiter in the 2d inScorpio, square to Mercury, could not render much assistance,

but the prince's temporary success and good fortune aremainly due to the trine of Jupiter to Mars, and his trine aspect

to the M. C., taken together with the fact that cardinal signshold the cusps of the angles.

The prince is a courteous and affable gentleman, generous

and magnanimous, but judging from the nativity he should besubject when provoked to outbursts of temper, self-will, rashness, obstinacy and inability to brook opposition appear to be

the predominating features of his character.

2I4 the SPHINx.

The Prince has been very unfortunate in marriage. He married a little after 19 (Moon sextile to the Sun zod d.d. 19.20)and unhappiness and speedy separation followed. His earlymarriage is attributable to the conjunction of Moon and Venus

near the cusp of the 7th, and the unhappiness and separation,

to Saturn and Herschel in the 7th and square to Mars retrograderuling the 7th.The causes which led to the great act of his life are not definitely known, but we cannot help thinking that he was promptedby a sense of sore disgust with life and his surroundings. Hisunsuccessful career, domestic troubles and disappointments

must in no small measure have contributed to the causes which

led Prince Prisdan to give up the World and seek consolationin the Philosophy of Gautama, who has summed up his wholereligion in the following sutta or verse:

“Sabbapāpassa akaranam

Kusalassa upasampadā

Sa chitta pariya dapanam —Etam Buddanusasanam.

“To cease from all sin,To get virtue,To cleanse one's own heart,

This is the religion of the Buddhas."

The following passage from a local publication contains anaccount of the Prince's ordination as Buddhist monk in Ceylon:

It was about 5 P.M. on Thursday the 5th of November, 1896, when, inthe small upper room of the octagonal “pansala” at Waskadua PrincePrisdan was admitted to the monkhood.

Appearing in his state dress, wearing full his complement of decorations, the Prince scattered among the vast crowds assembled round the“pansala” numbers of silver coins, in token that so he renounced all hiswealth and worldly greatness. Then he addressed the people in English,

his words being translated into Sinhalese, setting forth the nature of theduties he was entering upon, and with an effort, he broke in two his sword,

in token of surrender to his conqueror. All this was before the vast concourse of the assembled multitudes amidst shouts of applause and ringing

cheers of jubilation. But, all

the loud beating of drums, the shouts of

“Sadhu,” and the many and varied cries of

men, women and children had

w

PRINCE PRISDAN. 2 I 5

given place to a remarkably imposing stillness and calm, when the Prince,

clean-shaved and clad in spotless white, oh! how changed,—presented

himself at the door of the pansala. On an elevation, which resembled a

Catholic altar, was an image of Buddha, with seven candles burning before

it in a row. All the prince's costly apparel and personal belongings, threeuniforms, wrought with ornaments of fine gold, two swords, helmets, anaval cap, etc., were placed on a salver in front of the image, as an offering to the pansala. On the floor spread with gorgeous carpets, on circular

cushions of soft cotton, sat a dozen priests, among whom were UnanseSubhuti Waskaduwa and Unanse Dharmarama, the latter conspicuous by

his well-formed features and shining silk. The prince was questioned(through interpretation) as to his intentions to be admitted to monkhood,

and then it was very touching to see Prince Prisdan prostrating himselfbefore the image repeat in a solemn, half-heard, half-hushed voice, after the

still more solemn intoning of the officiating monk

Buddham Saranam Gachchami

Dharnam Saranam Gachchami

Sanghan Saranam Gachchami,_

the expression of embracing the Threefold refuge of Buddhism meaning

“I go for refuge to the Buddha,_ I go for refuge to the Law, I go forrefuge to the Order.” The novice was robed in yellow and shown to thepeople. Thus it came to pass that Prince Prisdan of the Royal Family ofSiam, was made a Buddhist Monk at Waskadua in Ceylon.

The closest primary for the great event of his life was —Sun sextile Mercury zod d.d. 44.28.By secondary direction Jupiter was within four degrees of theprogressed ascending degree, Moon (P) opposition Venus (P)Mars (P) trine Moon (P) Venus (P) sextile Mars (P) Herschel, Saturn and Mercury (P) square Mars (P) and Sun (P)in exact sextile to Mercury (R).In November, 1896, Herschel and Saturn were by transit very

close to the progressed ascending degree and Jupiter transitting

the opposition of Sun (R).The Prince kept his forty-fourth birthday with great rejoicing,

giving away most of his wealth in alms, and, having obtained

leave from the British Government landed in Ceylon, Oct. 24,

1896.

The following is the scheme for the ordination.

2I6 THE SPHINX.

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It is hardly possible to conceive ofa more evil day and

inauspicious time for such an important function.The 3d degree of Taurus rises, viz., that point of the heavensheld by Saturn and Herschel at birth, and Mercury ruler o

f

the

9th house of

the radical horoscope setting at

the time within 5'

of

an exact opposition of

Saturn (R), and Saturn and the Moonthe rulers o

f

the 9th and 4th houses of

the election scheme,

conjoined with the Sun and Uranus in the 7th house, a figure

of

sinister and evil import, foreshadowing dissatisfaction and

vexation to sayāthe least. Since entering the monkhood theprince does not appear to have had a pleasant time o

f it,

and

the attendant, directions are in accord, as shown by the fol

lowing:

Moon semi-square Moon zod d,

d.

. . . . 45.oo 1897

Moon and Mars rapt parallel . . . . . . 45.51 1898

Moon sextile Mars mundo d. d.

. . . . . 46.09 1898

Sun semi-sextile.Mercury con mundo . . . 46.3o 1898

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Sun parallel Saturn zod. d.d. . . . . . . 48.27 1900Sun square Mars zod. d. d. . . . . . . 49.4o 1901

Moon semi-square Venus con mundo . . . . 50.29 1902

Moon parallel Mercury zod d, d. . . . . . 50.37 1902

Moon parallel Jupiter zod d. d. . . . . . 50.38 1902

Moon square Jupiter conv mundo. . . . . 50.51 1903Moon square Sun zod d, d. . . . . . . . 51.19 1903

Sun square Moon conv mundo . . . . . . 51.48 1903

Sun parallel Herschel zod d, d. . . . . . 54.24 1906

Sun conjunction Saturn zod d, d. . . . . . 54.29 1906

Moon conjunction Mercury con mundo . . . 54.36 1906

Sun conjunction Herschel zod d, d. . . . . 55.44 1907

Sun conjunction Saturn mundo d. d. . . . 56.57 1909

Sun square Venus conv mundo. . . . . . 57.38 1909

Sun conjunction Herschel mundo d, d. . . . 57.46 1909

Sun square Mars mundo d, d. . . . . . . 58.17 1910

Moon semi-square Mars zod d, d. . . . . 58.17 1910

The primaries to come appear to be all

evil, with the excep

tion of

the Moon par. to Mercury, and the Moon par. Jupiter

zod. in 1902, but then Saturn by that time will be opposing themeridian o

f

the horoscope by transit. 1906 looks very unfavorable, for to add intensity to the grave directions then in force,

Saturn will by transit be passing over the radical Sun, but then,

what matters it,

at

worst it is no more than shuffling off thismortal coil, for as the poet says:

“We are the voices of the wandering wind,Which moan for rest, and rest can never find.Lo! as the wind is

,

so is mortal life,

A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.”A. G. RAUx.

THERE is a destiny made for each one by

his inheritance; he is the

necessary organic consequent of

certain organic antecedents; and it is impossible h

e should escape the tyranny of

his organization. Deep in his

inmost heart everybody has an instinctive feeling that he has been pre

destined from all eternity to be what he is,

and could not, antecedent

conditions having been what they were, have been different.

H. MAUDSLEY, M.D.

2 I 8 the SPHinx.

Drognogí3.

BY means of Astrology it is possible to indicate the ailments

to which any person is predisposed, and in marked cases topredict such as will infallibly be experienced. The general

rules upon this part of Astro-pathology are very loose, butthose cited by Lilly in his Christian Science are very reliable.It is

,

however, of

some consequence to know whether, in a

case, say, of kidney or lung complaint, the right or left organ

is affected, and my researches have already gained creditablecurrency among practitioners for the reason that the specialization of disease and the localization o

fthe seat of disease

form a new feature therein, and a very important one.

The method of dealing with the Prognosis of physical ail

ments whether incidental or accidental, is as follows:

Accidental affections are such as arise from without, whetherby contagion, atmospheric changes, infection o

r casualty whatSOever.

Incidental affections are such as arise from within the

system, by disease, derangement of function, etc.The Sun's affections in a horoscope point to hereditarytendencies, which are disposed to become chronic and to produce organic derangement. The Moon's affections indicate

such ailments as affect the system after birth by change of diet,climate, etc., and which lead to functional derangement.

The general nature of the various affections to which a body

is predisposed is indicated by the afflicting planet, and the part

of

the body affected is denoted by the sign that planet occupies.

Saturn produces contusions, obstructions, impediments, callosity, etc. In general, defects arising from cold and sluggishneSS.

Mars produces inflammatory action, effusion of

blood(hemorrhage), and excessive activity, operations, etc.Jupiter produces surfeit and defects arising therefrom, or

from overrichness of

the system, congestion, etc.

PROGNOSIS. 219

Meptune, depletion of tissue, wasting, nervous collapse,paralysis.

Venus, poisonous effects, sloughing, suppuration, virulenteffusion, etc.

In order to localize the affections thus indicated we have toconsider:

I. The sex of Horoscope.

2. The Sign held by Significator.

3. The House occupied by Sign.

In the male horoscope the 1st, 3d and alternate Housesare positive; the 2d, 4th, etc., Houses are negative.

The positive Houses are left-hand in a male Horoscope andright-hand in a female Horoscope.

The negative Houses are right-hand in the male Horoscope

and left-hand in a female Horoscope.

The Sign occupied by the afflicting planet indicates the zoneof the affection. The degree held by it shows the latitude of

the zone. The first ten degrees denotes the superior portion,

the middle ten degrees shows the central portion, the last tendegrees denotes the lower portion of the zone affected. TheHouse occupied by the afflicting planet denotes the longitude

of the affected part; as, if in a negative House in a male horoscope, the right side is indicated. The beginning of a House

shows the part nearest the center of a zone, the middle of a

House indicates the middle part of that side of the zone, thelatter part of a House denotes the outer part of the affectedside of a zone.

ExAMPLES.

Female, born at New York, Dec. 13, 1867, I 1.30 P.M. TheSun in the 4th House is afflicted by the conjunction of Mars.

The body has suffered from hurt to the left thigh. The 4th

House is negative, it denotes the left of a female body. Sagittarius, wherein is Mars, denotes the thigh. The planet Mars

is in the 27th degree of Sagittarius and therefore denotes thatpart of the left thigh just above the knee.Female, born Feb. 28, 1863, 8. IO A.M. at Stratford, Eng

land. . Mars in the 1st House in Taurus, denotes the right side

22O THE SPHINx.

of the throat which was operated upon for Tonsilitis. Thelady has also a scar on the left side of the face, a little above

the mouth caused by a dog-bite. Mars in the 1st House

denotes hurt to the head, Taurus being negative denotes theleft side. Mars being in the 25th degree of Taurus, near theend of the 1st House, shows the lower portion of the left sideof the face.

Male, born March 20, 1864, 2.10 A.M. Injured the leftgroin by a fall at a gymnasium. Saturn in 15 degrees Libraoccupies the 9th House, denoting the left side of the body inthe region of the groin. Saturn being nearly central in the

House denoted the middle of the left groin where the blowwas received.

The above illustrations have regard to position of maleficplanets, irrespective of their aspects to the Sun or Moon.When the Sun is afflicted at birth these injuries or affectionsare permanent; but the affliction of the Moon is not in itselfsufficient indication of a permanent affection.

SEPHARIAL.

THE redemption of Astrology, as a potent means of influence over manyminds, from the grasp of the ignorant impostor and the mischievous quack,

can only be affected by the application to astronomical phenomena, considered as parallel to recorded facts, of the methods of inductive science.Any advance toward the solution of so ancient, so influential and sodifficult a problem, is a task not unworthy of the leisure of the noblest

mind. It is a problem as to which it is hardly permissible for the loverand student of truth, to remain in contented ignorance. To speak of thequestion as one of mere imposture preying upon ignorance, is to speakrashly that which they know not, and to venture where the greatest men ofpast history have trodden with reverence. A modest skepticism and amodest faith may join in the effort, to learn the lesson taught by the firesof heaven.

— The Scottish Review, july, 1897.

“THE NAME OF THE STAR is CALLED worMwood.” 22 I

“Che name Of the 35tatig Calleo (ClOrmWOOO.”

IN order to give something of an idea of the great extent towhich the Bible mysteries are interwoven with the astrologic“Exaltation,” “Detriment,” and “Fall” of the planets let usturn to the 8th chap. of Daniel and note the prophet's visionof a Ram which was cast down and trampled by a Goat.This Ram was Jupiter whose Fall was foreseen and astronomically calculated ages ago by that Grand Master of StarLore known to us as the Angel Gabriel, who assured Danielthat the vision was for many days, for the time of the end.Jupiter Ammon was typified by a Ram; which symbolism

was a trophy fleeced from the fallen Mars.About ten thousand years ago, when the vernal equinox was

in the sign of Cancer, Jupiter came into great power andmajesty through his astrologic exaltation at the same time that

Mars met his Fall in the same sign.Mars, from his house Aries, was legitimately entitled to thecrest of the Ram, but Jupiter, with intent upon changing himself into every bird, beast, fish, and god he might come in

contact with, appropriated to himself for future use, the horns,

fleece, etc., of the fallen hero; and, when Typhon made hisappearance, these trophies extricated him from his dilemma by

enabling him to metamorphose into a Ram.

And it is while masquerading under the horns, likeness, andcharacter of a Ram that the prophet Daniel sees Jupiter attackedand thrown down by the Goat, or sign of Capricornus, -inwhich sign the former order of things reverses by Mars rising

into exaltation while Jupiter goes down with a tremendous fall.This vision of Daniel is notable for its war of horns,— ram's

horns and goat's horns, some of which are broken while others

wax strong and great even to the host of heaven, casting down

Some of the host of stars and stamping upon them.

The Goat, or Capricornus, beside being the sign of Mars'exaltation, is the house of Saturn and Uranus, all of whom will

222 THE SPHINX.

soon begin to trample Jupiter under foot in their triumphantmarch 1

Beside the menaces from Jupiter's fall there are certain otherevils gathering in his sky known as his astrologic “detriments.”

The places of a planet's detriment are the points opposite

their houses, and, in which they are especially weak andunfortunate.

Jupiter having his two houses in Sagittarius and Pisces, wefind opposite the first, in Gemini, his rival and supplanter, Neptune, on his way to exaltation in Cancer; while opposite Piscesis the Virgin Queen of the heavens which, as we have previously seen, is a target or an especial mark for the shafts ofevil argury.

Now just here, in connection with Jupiter's detriment andfall, let us turn to the April number of THE SPHINx whichfavors us with one of Merlin's very curious predictions, the

trifold interpretation and application of which can very aptly

be symbolized by the three-headed Geryon.

One interpretation accompanies the prediction in THESPHINX, and another is

,

in pith, as follows:

Seven and ten added to nine (9,710 years)

Then shall the (sign of the) Fish bewail his boss(or lord, Jupiter).

Then old England shall be no more,

And no man shall be sorry therefore.

What we calculate, and express in round numbers, as aboutten thousand years for Jupiter's career, Merlin reckons as 9,710years, and then comes again the oft-repeated prediction o

f

Britannia's fall along with that of Jupiter.

We have seen that where Jupiter falls Mars comes into exaltation; where the Whale, the Fishes, and Mercury fall, Venusrises; and, where Saturn resurrects to bring again the GoldenAge on

earth we must make the subject of

another article:but there are a couple of other astrals about to rise, for the understanding of which we must go back to the time, about 6,000years ago, when, in the procession o

f

the equinoxes, the sun

“THE NAME OF THE STAR IS CALLED WORMwooD.” 223

etc

was falling back into Taurus; and, in the opposite heavens,

the earth was retrograding into Scorpio, there occurred anastrologic phenomenon weirdly familiar to us as “The Fall ofMan,” but which might with equal correctness be expressed asThe Fall of the Moon : for, although this cannot be fully comprehended apart from the horoscope of the human race, yet

it is a fact that Man and Moon are so interblended that theymight almost be called synonyms.

The familiar phrase of “A Man in the Moon” has its origin

in a Sabaean mystery which the Mundane horoscope makesapparent.

The pace of

the Moon's (Man's) Fall is in Scorpio, the signaccursed.

Being a satellite of our planet, when the earth, about 6,000years ago, entered Scorpio she, of course, led the Moon to

her Fall ! and simultaneously with the fall of Luna occurredthe Fall of the human race. -

This great event, this double tragedy is made a feature of

in Revelations 8th and 9th chapters, thus: 9:I v. “And I

saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; and to him (toMan) was given the key of the bottomless pit . . . which

he opened and there came out locusts upon the earth which

had power as the Scorpions of

the earth have power . .

and their torment was as the torment ofa Scorpion when

it striketh a man . . . and their tails were like scorpions

This fallen star we perceive to be thoroughly amalgamated

with Man and the Scorpion: and of

the other star, Revelation 8

: Io v. we have the following: “And there fell a greatStar from heaven . . . it fell upon the streams and upon thefountains of waters. And the name of the Star is calledWormwood.”Wormwood is the common name for Absinthe Artemisia

which evidently refers to Artemis or the Moon; the wormprobably refers to the node or serpent; and a

s this star had

such an

effect upon the waters we must associate it with theMoon which rules the ocean tides, etc.

224 the SPHINx.

“If I fall, I shall rise again.” And so must this fallenMoon, this fallen Man rise again; there will sometime be a

New Moon — the anticipation of which has given rise to religious rites and festivals the world over, for six thousand years.

The time and place for the resurrection of this fallen Moonis at the Earth's passover from Virgo into Leo, and just

between the Virgin and the Lion in the constellation of theCrater (or bottomless pit) is a Crescent or New Moon, whichresurrects from the Crater and shines upon our Earth simultaneously with Neptune's entering Cancer, the house of theMoon.

This Crescent is the ensign of the Mohammedan religion.

While the Earth has been passing through Virgo two greatreligions have risen under the respective ensigns of the Cross

and Crescent: just under Virgo is the Southern Cross, andat her head is the Crescent.

These two religions, which have marked their trail with

human gore, are part and parcel of the Dark Ages; forwhile the Virgin was bringing them to birth the sun opposite

was creeping through the Whale's belly which Jonah calls“The belly of Hell"; and, according to Merlin, they have neither part nor lot in the Age of righteousness to come.

ANNA PHAROS.

ONE of the learned men of our day who for fifty years labored todecipher the hieroglyphics of the ancients, found upon a mummy case inthe British Museum a delineation of the signs of the Zodiac and the posi

tion of the planets: the date to which they pointed was the AutumnalEquinox of the year 1722 B. C. Professor Mitchell, to whom the fact wascommunicated, employed his assistants to ascertain the exact position ofthe heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system, on the equinox of thatyear. That was done and a diagram furnished by parties ignorant ofhis object, which showed that on the 7th of October, 1722 B. C., themoon and planets occupied the exact point in the heavens marked upon

the coffin in the British Museum.

— Goodwin's Columbus.

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF SAGITTARIUS. 225

(Ibe Character ano ſfortuneg of $agittariug,

SAGITTARIUS confers on its

children ingenuity and honesty, a

generous nature which does good for its

own sake without any

thought ofa return. The ancient Mystics attributed to this

sign a double nature and believed that those born under it werealtogether good o

r

bad. Like the Centaur its pictorial symbol,

its

fore part being reputed human and beneficent and the

latter half more animal and destructive. The general character

is ingenious, subtle, honest, pacific, quick to anger and to forgive, quickly assimilating, lively, versatile, skillful, equitable

and very generous. Uneasily torments itself and suffers fromsudden and motiveless anxieties. Its character is gentle, andonly rough when provoked o

r

in presence of injurious people.

Sagittarius folk are very sensitive and impressionable, and this

is the cause of

their irascibility, which however soon passes andleaves no traces. The character is as a rule gay and cheerful,

and long retains its youthfulness. Sagittarius gives simplicity

in the manner of

life and a powerful instinct of independence.

Its children are distrustful of themselves and of others, which

does not prevent their being often taken in.

They are lovers

of peace, and often yield rather than struggle over a matter.

They are not militant because of

their extreme timidity, butthis can, on occasion, change suddenly into boldness andbrusquerie. They like to work alone in the silence of theirstudy. They are generally versatile, clever with their hands,

eloquent and lovers of

the Arts and Sciences. Their passions

are calm and controlled by their reason, but are sometimes

also lively and inconstant. Their opinions are variable, but areoften very catholic and eclectic. There will be little wealth in

early life, through a change ora reversal in the position of

theparents. Fortune will be acquired by personal effort at first,

and later by inheritance and legacy. This sign gives fewbrothers, or quarrels with those one has, one of them willprobably die prematurely. There are family secrets, and

226 the SPhinx.

probable quarrels with relatives or the parents-in-law. Therewill be few or no children and little satisfaction with the first.

There may be discord and separation between the native and

his children. Sagittarius can give two marriages or protractedunions, one of which would injure the position. The Profession,

like the talent for that matter, may be of a double nature, theposition will be hard to establish, with many obstacles especially

in early life. There will be periodic illnesses but of shortduration, quinsies and headaches, and until the 30th year aliability to falls from high places. Many journeys and frequent changes of residence are necessitated by the position.

This sign however gives few or no sea voyages. One of theparents will die during a journey. The social relations will bevery advantageous, though a false friend will try unsuccessfully

to injure the position. Patronage of the great will be forthcoming, and at a given moment a great lady will be very

helpful. Besides enemies there will be determined calumny

and envy, which will seek to prejudice either the profession or

in love matters. Sagittarius gives a long life, and a tempera

ment either purely nervous, or nervous bilious according tothe climate. -

On its higher side this sign symbolizes Religion and Proph

ecy, like Swedenborg, and on its lower and mundane sideworldly wisdom and tact, like the Prince of Wales.Every sign has 30 degrees, each decan o

r Io degrees of

which has a subinfluence of

another (or the same) planet:—

I. Ruled by Mercury. An independent, arrogant nature,

fortune in a military career, great sorrows in marriage, versatility, capacity, a quick but disorderly intellect, interested in thenatural sciences and philosophy.

II.

Ruled by the Moon. Restless activity, a religious spirit,great trials in life, dangerous passions, taciturnity, scientificability, great mobility o

f impressions, sincerity, romanticimagination with creative powers, love of travels, sometimes

fame and fortune, inheritance and legacies, the friendship

of great ladies, unexpected perils, possible death in a foreigncountry, o

f

which the native may himself be the cause.

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF SAGITTARIUS. 227

III. Ruled by Saturn. Egotism, obstinacy, a cruel andviolent nature, mischievous and cunning, the wisdom of theserpent, reprehensible instincts, riches difficult to acquire,

literary and scientific talents, many quarrels in life, with sometimes a taste for occultism and black magic.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Sagittarius risingat their birth. By sending your date and hour of birth (which isimperative) and fifty cents, we will send you the number of THE SPHINxwhich contains the description of your rising sign.-ED.

THE lotus plant was the religious plant of Egypt, besides being theuniversal favorite, and as necessary to friendship and entertainments as inthe service of the temple. The secret of the “religious allusion” lay in itsproductive powers, which is explained by the following from Payne Knight:

“The orifice of the cells being too small to let the seeds drop out whenripe, they shoot forth into new plants in the places where they are formed;

the bulb of the vessel serving as a matrix to nourish them, until they acquire

such a degree of magnitude as to break it open, and release themselves.After which like other aquatic plants, they take root wherever the currentdeposits them.” It is easy then, to understand why Creuser called thelotus the “birthplace and bed of Hymen”; Rougé, the “new birth "; andLepsius, “inexhaustible life.” It was further said to be independent ofmasculine pollen. Perhaps nothing in nature so aptly illustrates selfcreation, and the divine action in production. It is the symbol of deity in

its androgyneity, being male and female. Dr. Oliver, the Masonic clergy

man, noticed that it was “one of

the principal ornaments of

Solomon'sTemple.”

India, Persepolis, and Ninevah honored it.

The French long retained

it as the national emblem in the fleur-de-lis; and it is still in Europe, as

it was in Egypt, marked on religious walls, floors, roofs, pillars, and altarcloths. The Greek artists perpetuated the idea. In the Berlin Museummay b

e

seen some pictured satyrs offering it to a woman, and the medieval

artists followed suit and made the Angel Gabriel bring it from heaven to

the Virgin Mary.

(The lotus therefore is a most appropriate decoration for THE SPHINx,

as also the colors red and black, which are two of

the sacred colors of

Egypt, Red, being a symbol of

divine love, and Black, the color of

Osiris andIsis, also of

Christna in India, and the black Madonnas of Europe.)

228 the SPHINX.

(Ibe H3trologer'8 U)abe (Decum.

INTRODUCTION.

SHEPHERDs were the first Astrologers. Their habit of sleep

ing on the ground with only the blue canopy of the heavens

above them, naturally led to an observance of the heavenly

bodies. This was before man had invented an alphabet, and

from necessity they invented hieroglyphics as symbolizing thesignifications of the planets, and constellations of the Zodiac.The shepherds were then the most intelligent class, while thehunters were on a lower plane and nearer that of the savage.Hence, like our most learned scholars of today, who constitute

a class by themselves, the shepherds were the highest casteand they concealed from the lower their secrets of science andphilosophy.

This was the origin of both speculative and practical Freemasonry. The first Masonic Lodge was not a Fraternity, buta school of science in which Astrology was the chief study.Only the worthy and competent were admitted, and underpromise not to reveal to the exoteric — outsiders — what theywere taught. In time all the seven liberal arts and sciences

were taught, but Astrology, the parent of Astronomy, neverceased to be the science adored above all others. It was“ Divine,” because a revelation from the heavens.During the persecution of the Masons in the Dark Ages, whenfor more than a thousand years they never dared to meet in abuilding, they lost a knowledge of the arts and sciences, but

in a most wonderful manner were able to preserve their sym

bols and ceremonies. It was during this dark period that the“Students of Nature” grew into the grandest Brotherhood

known to man. It was then that they invented signs andtokens whereby they might know each other, though strangers.

One sign that is never allowed to be given unless the emergency

is great, and which rings in the heart of a Mason like a cry for

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 229

mercy, is always answered by flying to the aid of a distressedBrother, even at the risk of life.

Though not a Mason, go into a Lodge and look around.Everywhere you see the relics of Astrology. If a Mason,listen to the opening and closing ceremonies. Astronomy isthe basis of the questions and answers. All this has been preserved by tradition while much of it

s

sublime esoteric meaning

has been lost. A whole lecture is necessary to recount what I

have learned as a student of Astrology concerning “the lost

arts,” and while I cannot spare the space for a full explanation,

I will give one as an example:The initiate is instructed that Freemasonry and Geometry

were formerly the same, and his attention is called to the letter

G,

suspended in front of

the Worshipful Master, but the fullsignificance o

f it is not made plain. Without Geometry fordescribing the arcs and angles in measuring space in theheavens, the Astrologer would have a sorry time in calculating Directions. The early “Students of Nature” divided thecircle into 360 equal parts to facilitate the construction o

f

angles. Sixty of those parts, which we call “degrees,” being

one-sixth of

the circle they called a “sextile” and represented

it by k,

(a star). Ninety degrees, or “the fourth part of thecircle,” was important to the practical Masons for the corner o

f

his building must be [], (square). Hence the “Square,” a

working tool with all mechanics. One-third of a circle, or 120°,

has a very important signification and is A, (a trine,) fromwhich we have trinity and the number 3

,

which the ancient

Arabian Masons fashioned with a center and two ends, making

it a sort of hieroglyphic. They constructed the figure 4 withfour ends, to indicate four a

ta glance, and as Jupiter was the

fourth planet from the Sun, they made his symbol, 21, a modification o

f

4.

Saturn was the fifth planet, and his symbol, h,

is a modification of

the figure 5.

Ancient Masons had many trinities, chief among which wasWisdom, Strength and Beauty, al

l

derived from Geometry.

Modern Masons, having lost the original symbols, represent

them by three orders of architecture, and while the explanations

230 the SPhinx.

seem appropriate, they lack the Geometrical fitness of the original. I do not mean to criticise, nor advise a change of theMasonic work, but think it interesting to know that the following Geometrical figures were the ancient symbols of Wisdom,

Strength and Beauty:

| /\ OThe first of these symbols is a perpendicular, and the shortest line that can be drawn between two given points. Theobelisk, or single pillar, found all over the East, represents it

;

it stands erect without any support, a beautiful symbol of

Wisdom.

The second is a triangle on two feet, represented by the earlyEgyptian Masons by the pyramid, the strongest of all super

structures, and the most enduring, defying alike the storm, the

sunshine and the tooth of

time. No better symbol of Strength

could possibly be

devised.

The third was the circle, a symbol always held in great

reverence. Curved lines were more graceful than angles, and

therefore the circle was adopted as the symbol of Beauty.

Here was Wisdom to design, Strength to establish and Beauty

to adorn.

The circle was also the symbol of eternity, for it had neitherbeginning nor end. Besides, it represented the visible universe,

and by placing a dot, (the Hebrews called it yod.) in the center, it represented “God in the midst of eternity.” This wasadopted a

s the hieroglyphic of the Sun, and is so acceptedtoday by all enlightened nations. The old Masons of India

said: “The Sun is not God, but his brightest image.” AncientGreeks and Romans called the Sun the “God of Day” and theMoon the “Goddess of Night.” The same idea, but in differentlanguage, was expressed by the Hebrews: “And God madetwo great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesserlight to rule the night.” Gen. I. 16.

Masons often speak of

the symbol of

the Sun as “a pointwithin a circle.” Anciently this was done so that the exoteric

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. 23 I

should not understand what the Masons were talking about.Here is a Masonic secret, and all other so-called secrets are of

a similar kind, being the secrets of science which the initiatewas not allowed to teach the non-initiate. Therefore the

explanations of science were veiled in allegories, the language

being metaphorical. All enlightened nations had what modernscalled “Heathen Mythology,” the true meaning of which is not

understood by even our best scholars, because they are ignorant

of Astrology. Ancient Masons did not believe in the reality

of their gods, but the exoteric interpreted the allegories in theirliteral sense, and thus arose the doctrine of Polytheism, whichno Mason ever has or ever will accept.

The word “god” applied to Jupiter has precisely the samemeaning as “planet.” The “planet Jupiter” and the “godJupiter” are as exactly alike as “English wain and wagon.”

So of Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury, in the Latin allegories,

but which are given different names by the Greeks, whereSaturn is Chronos; Jupiter is Zeus, then Deus in the Latin andDeity in the English. The wonderful performances of thegods are the explanations of the astrological indications ofthe planets of the same name, and Masons a

ll

understoodthis, until they lost their arts and sciences through persecu

tions, because they could not be made by the most crueltortures to reveal the secrets of the Sanctum Sanctorum.

The Geometrical symbols for Wisdom, Strength and Beauty,

in their various combinations, constitute the capital letters of

the Latin Alphabet, the first alphabet in which the form of

the

letter was scientific; the letters of

the Phoenician Alphabet,

adopted by the Hebrews, being an

evolution from hieroglyphics. Thus, ancient Masons invented the first scientificalphabet.

W. H. CHANEY.

THE further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of

design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seennothing but accident.

DE QUINCEY.

232 THE SPHINX.

(Ibe $ignatures of the Slanetº.(TRANSLATED BY KYMRY.)

THE SIGNATURE OF SATURN.

SATURNIANs are tall pale and thin: their skin is very darkoften earthy and dry: they wrinkle easily: their hair at firstthick, dark and often black is early lost or rather thins withoutusually becoming actually bald. They are flat and bulky.

Saturnians walk with bended knees, the eyes looking down, and

the walk is slow. They have a long head, hollow cheeks alarge jaw and prominent cheekbones: the eyebrows are dark

and rise inwardly and nearly meet: the eyes are dark sad and

often dull in their expression. They become keen in suspicion

or in anger. The white of the eye is yellowish: their ears arebig, the nose of an ordinary length is thin and pointed, their

nostrils are never dilated. The mouth is large, the lips are thinand the lower one projects; the teeth sometimes white in youth

have at first a certain strength, they are often double but soondecay. Their gums are pale, the dark beard on their cheeks isthin, the chin is rather long and broad in its lower part. Thelower jaw heavy and broad projects. The neck is long and thin

with big muscles and the veins showing. What is called theAdam's apple is very distinct. Generally thin they have big

bones with heavy joints. The chest is narrow and hairy, the

shoulders moderately developed but very high which gives

them a round-shouldered look although the back is straight:

their arms are bony and the muscles dryly marked on them: the

hands are knotty and thin, the middle finger is very spatulate.

The veins of their feet are very apparent and they are subject

to varicose veins, their legs become feeble early and are often

inert in old age and they are nearly always liable to accidents which attack the legs. Many cripples and those disabledby rheumatism are found among them. Deafness is also a

Saturnian characteristic. Phrenologically they lack the organ

THE SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 233

of veneration, they have the organ of individuality curiously

developed between the two eyes and still more the organ ofcausality, the inquiring spirit which not being enlightened by

comparison, torments them incessantly with inexplicable questions, and throws them into doubts on the immortality of thesoul, and this state of unrest has a certain fascination for their

melancholy and dissatisfied temperament. They distrust every

one and especially themselves, and this suspicion augmented

by an immense pride which makes them fear ridicule, prevents them from putting themselves forward pleasantly. They

are natural rebels, independent, incredulous but superstitious.

They are fitted for mathematics and the serious sciences butespecially to agriculture and the exploitation of mines: they

are for the rest laborious patient, ascetic, little susceptible tolove, and even please themselves when superstition is strong

in mortifications of the flesh. There are priests found among

them and these are the most rigid enthusiastic and fanatical.They prefer the color black for their dress. They rarely laugh,they like damp places and plant trees and cultivate gardens.They are sober and inclined to avarice. They love solitude and

are especially hypochondriacs. They delight in contradiction.They are sometimes musicians, but especially love seriousmusic and admire it

s difficulties; they prefer counterpoint to

melody. Wagner is a true Saturnian type. They are oftensplendid executants in music. Paganini was a

n almost complete type o

f

Saturn. All sincere republicans are Saturnians.Those who have a

n

infusion of Jupiter are ambitious, the Mer

•curial ones have much of

the wisdom of

the serpent. It is alsoamong the Saturnians that one finds the determined gamblers

who always lose. Mercury gambles from a love of gambling,

Saturn through a love of combinations. Mars joined to Saturngives armed revolt. Independence is the strongest instinct o

f

the Saturnian. The true types of

the Saturnian rebel pass a

part of their lives in prison to which fatality pushes them.Obstinacy is a peculiarly Saturnian feature. Saturnians havelong fingers, thin at

the third phalange, very knotty veryspatulate and the thumb is nearly always long and broad indi

234 THE SPHINX.

cating perseverance. Dante is an extremely pure example of

the highest development of the Saturnian type.

THE SIGNATURE of JUPITER.

Men born under Jupiter are strongly built and of averagestature; they have a white and rosy skin and a fresh color:they are fleshy, neither too fat nor too thin. Their voice is

clear. They have large eyes moist and bright: their eye

lashes are long and fine: the hair is chestnut, curled thickand supple in youth, and the beard is disposed in curls oris crisped: the eyebrows are arched and bushy: the nose

is of medium size and straight: the mouth is rather large

and the lips are strong, the upper lip advancing a little overthe lower one; the teeth are large and often the two front

teeth above are longer than the others; the cheeks are fleshy

and firm: the chin is rather long with a dimple in the middle; the ears are set close to the head: the neck is elegant

and well proportioned and in women show blue veins: the

shoulders are broad and fleshy and the chest is deep and

well covered: they have a tendency in age to become obese:

their feet and hands are thick without being strong and theirlegs are hairy. They perspire easily on the head and especially on the forehead. Their walk is sober, neither fast nor

slow. They become bald early, especially on the top of thehead. Men born under this influence love comfort and luxury:

they have great self confidence, are jovial and delight in

festivals and social gatherings. They are great eaters andcopious in their wine cups, loving pomp and ceremony, they

love receptions and splendid fêtes. They are proud and havefine manners and generosity. They are always decorated andoccupy the first places in public administrations: they areambitious and skillful in affairs. They have strong family pride

and help and push forward their relations in every way: they

have the religious sentiment but like it with pomp, ceremony

and processions: they are quick, sometimes angry but do

not bear a grudge. They desire calm and peace. They aregallant and prone to love of the sensual sort. In general

The SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 235

their life is brilliant, fortunate and before the public eye:they are magnanimous, gentle, easy-going, placid, popular

with everyone, even the crafty. They know how to help protect and retain their friends. The painters of this type arebrilliant colorists like Rubens and the musicians are brilliant,

facile and joyous like Rossini. (The Prince of Wales whowas born with Jupiter rising in Sagittarius is a perfect typeof all the above characteristics.)

THE SIGNATURE of MARs.

Those born under this influence are above the average height,

but strongly built. They have a short head, small and thick,

the forehead high and uncovered and the cerebellum much

developed. The face is round, covered with spots, the skin ishard, firm, and of a red brown especially near the ears: thehair is short, thick and curled at the extremities, red or sandy

colored: the eyes are large, bright and fierce, the pupils

chestnut or a warm grey, are fixed when talking with a firm andhard expression: the white of the eye is often bloodshot; themouth is large and the lips are thin, small and tightly closed.The lower lip only is thick, the teeth are large, short, pointed

often like a saw, and are set in healthy red gums. The eye

brows are level, and set low on the eyes, bushy and frowneasily. The nose raised and pointed, is bent somewhat in theform of a beak, the nostrils are open and dilated, the chinprojects, the beard is short and stiff, the ears are small andseparated from the head, the cartilages are hard and the lobe

of the ear is long. The cheeks are bony and the cheekbonesprominent. The type of Mars is faithfully represented by theilluminated fate of the French punchinello. Those born underthis influence march with the head thrown back, the neck is

short, thickset muscular and of a bluish red. The chest is very

broad and arched, the shoulders also are strong and fleshy;

the back is thick which gives the neck a short appearance, theextremities are robust and the bones are big. The stomach isrelatively flat, the thighs are short rather than long and the legs

are muscular. They walk with a rapid stride. Their voice is

236 THE SPHINX.

strong and haughty, metallic and reverberating, tenors are nearly

always Mars and the Moon, and the basses are Mars and Saturn.They are petulant and masterful, their movements are brusque

and rapid. They have what Dumas has called devastating

gestures. Servants who break a great deal are under the

influence of Mars. The children of this planet can be gener

ous and magnanimous: they are as a rule extremely prodigal.

They despise danger and do not lose their heads when it springs

on them. They attach no value to life. They love plumes,

red and forcible colors, glittering arms, trophies, and the smell

of powder which intoxicates them. (Joubert has observedthat the drum which drowns thought is for that very reason

the most martial of instruments.) They frequent cafés anddrinking saloons where strong spirits are supplied, they lovegambling, animated conversations, revels and every way ofkilling time in a material way. They talk loudly and like todominate others in this way. They are irritated by contradiction and easily lose their tempers. They are violent and

full of pride. Prone to all

sensual pleasures and especially to

those of love, they are bold with the opposite sex, and know

how to win their affections. Mars and Venus are always

attracted to each other. They are tenacious, quarrelsome,violent, audacious and exaggerated in their stories. They eat

a great deal and voraciously, and by preference underdonemeat; they willingly talk about their own exploits and are

not afraid of blowing their own trumpet. (In fact they are

often tremendous braggarts—the Homeric hero being in thisway from a modern point o

f

view often quite humorous.) Bypreference they choose the professions which involve theshedding o

f

blood like surgery and slaughtering. They lovesanguinary spectacles like bull fights. The planet Mars gives

also movement, activity, energy: it augments the force, power

and virile quality even in the arts. Mars gives color to

painters, and fascinating energy to orators. It is by theinfluence of

the red planet that popular orators carry theiraudiences with them. All barristers who excel in oratoricalgestures, who surprise without touching their hearers, are

The SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 237

under the influence of Mars. In art Michel Angelo, SalvatorRosa, and Caravagio were under the influence of Mars. Theirhands are hard, their fingers big, strong, and thick at the thirdphalange: the first phalange of the thumb is large and ballshaped, the mount of Mars developed swells out the percussion

(side of the hand) below the heart line. The plain of Mars isoften rayed.

( To be continued.)

A LETTER TO THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.

SIR: Reference was recently made in your columns in connection withthe Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, to the story in one of Strada'sprolusions of a correspondence between two friends, who at any distance

communicate with one another by means of two boxes with the twenty

four letters round them and fitted with sympathetic needles. If one had amind to write anything to his friend, and spelled out the words of his message by directing the needles to their several letters, his friend had merely

to keep a watch, and he saw his own needle move of itself to every corresponding letter of the dial of his own box.Glancing today at Diderot's Correspondence, I met with the following

passage, “Will Comus ever perfect his secret? This Comus is a charlatanof the fairs who is puzzling our physicists out of their wits. His secretconsists in establishing a correspondence between two persons in differentrooms, without any visible means of any sort of communication. Couldthis man some day make it possible to send messages from one town toanother, from one place to another, hundreds of miles away, what a capi

tal

thing it would be All we should need would be our separate boxes:

each box would be, as it were, a separate little printing press, in which

whatever was printed in one would then and there be found reproduced in

the other.” In a letter a fortnight previous he says, “This Comus, whose

legerdemain is bewildering every one, is no

sorcerer I am sure, and that is

enough for me.” K.

238 THE SPHINX.

Che 35cience of Celegtial ºbílogopbp Relatingto flativitieg.

FounDED ON THE TRUE AND PROGREssive MOTION OF THE PLANE

TARY BODIES ; ExPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITHDIAGRAMs, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.

By G. T. F. SMITH TO R. PRICE.

LETTER No. 3.

CHELTENHAM, December, 1852.

DEAR SIR: My state of health in winter unfortunately affordsme too much leisure time; therefore, your letters meet withquick responses.

Now for your queries, I do account one day as one year,and two hours for one month. I respect the progressive aspectsof the planets and Moon, together with a

ll aspects to the planet'splaces in the radix. I take into special consideration the transiting planets to the various aspects formed, both in the progressive o

r

local positions and in the radix, as they severally

occur irrespective of birthdays. I do not attend to the aspectsthe transiting o

r exciting planets form with each other, but only

as respects the directions in the progress and radix which they

excite.

Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter excite, both when direct andwhen retrograde, iſ they apply to the directions in any case; butregard Mars, Venus, and Mercury as exciters only when retrograde, excepting in a very slight degree. Retrograde application

to directions is more telling than when direct, but either is very

important and indispensable when directing their electric, exciting influence to the angle where the direction falls. Mars andthe Sun no doubt have some effect if at the time of a direction

being due they transit the point, but their stay is of

too short a

period to be of

much importance. In a day of battle Mars as

a transit excitement would prove very mischievous.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 239

The Moon to the parallel of Jupiter local is,

as you say, Moon

to the declination of Jupiter at so many days accession as years

after birth, meeting Jupiter's then declination as well as Jupiter's

radical declination.

Louis Napoleon may be

married when Moon forms a parallel

to Jupiter in February, 1853. All conjunctions and parallelsgive either marriage o

r

introductions. No marriage ever occurswithout a conjunction o

r parallel of some one of the planets

with either radical or

local places by direction. Such generallyproduce marriage, provided the places where the aspects are

formed are free from affliction of any malignant aspect, as

suchmay be deemed negative testimony, and destroys the otherwisepositive testimony. Conjunctions and parallels always introduceyou to some one thing o

r person, so far as I have proved.

I now present you with another illustration, the horoscope

of Mr. Marr.

July 8, 1787,

6.oo A.M.

Ratcliffe.

24O the SPHINX.

In the first place, the radix is full of malignity. But note theaspects answering to the time of death exactly at 24 years and

5 months after birth.

The Directions are as follows:

D & h D D 3 local

D par. § local D & 3 local

D ssa. G) B. D D Pleiades, separating

G) & Ascendant

Uranus in December, 1811, is in Scorpio 21°, in square excitement to the Moon, applying to the Moon a very powerful excitement, as Uranus remains there so long. Jupiter retrograde isexciting a square to Mercury, whose parallel the Moon acquires;

Uranus excites the Moon's local parallel by having the same declination in December, 1811, as the Sun in the ephemeris attainsin 8° Leo; and the Sun's conjunction to the ascendant is nearthe most dangerous fixed stars, the Asseli. The Moon, you

see, immediately applies to all the aspects consecutively, without let or hindrance. The fixed stars are always concerned in

violent deaths and catastrophies; and all the above occurring

in the eighth house, the Moon meeting the train, and Saturn inconjunction of Moon radix' It is the successive aspects, oneafter the other, all of malignity, that gives weight of testimony

for death. Then the excitement to this very angle of convergence: Uranus applying by square to the Moon, electricallyexciting to action; Mercury's local parallel is intensely malignant, being magnetized by the square of Mars. Such were the

direful causes of this murder — agreeable to irresistible laws (sofar as human power is concerned). What a metaphysical contemplation'

In the child's horoscope the Moon was in sesquisquare

to Sun, and parallel to Uranus' radix, excited by Uranus'parallel in December, 1811, and evil “by position,” as it istermed.

The next horoscope to which I shall draw your attention is that of the Rev. Dr. Irving, author of the UnknownTongue.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 24. I

The following are the Directions:

) ssq. h local § ssg. Asc.D & G) an Eclipse & D H partile

This latter between the ascendant and the ninth house might

have an effect only on the mind, but I attach much importanceto the Eclipse. Saturn is applying by excitement to the oppo

sition of Saturn, and is exciting the Moon's local declination.In prosecuting the study I have opened to your view, firstmake yourself well acquainted with the Directions and theErciting Influence. There is nothing but the certain aspects

to consider, nothing artificial or doubtful. The event is seen

to move with the cause. Directly excitement ceases, effectceases, until again excited.

Hon. C. Berkely's horoscope will surprise you, wherein hegained the election upon which I bet ten pounds, and within

242 THE SPHINX.

six weeks he was petitioned against and turned out. Thedirections which gained the election were not fully completein the Primary, for the Moon, as mentioned, frequently precipi

tates the event whilst applying. Therefore, how was he to be1ucky, and defeated in so short a period? The reason was, theexciting influence became retrograde, and ceased to apply to

the prosperous arcs; and a malignant primary direction of theSun being just upon it

,excited, h

e

lost office.

You will term this a refined proof of science when it is submitted to you, but a veritable truth. It is thus sudden changes

in life are to be accounted for, but in no other way. It hascost me immense study, but I saw the basis was good. Applythese methods to any known event to come off a

ta given time;

the result will astonish you.

Yours truly,GEORGE SMITH.

BURDEN not the back of Aries, Leo or

Taurus with thy faults: nor makeSaturn, Mars o

r

Venus guilty of thy follies. Think not to fasten thy im

perfection on

the stars and so despairingly conceive thyself under a fatality

of being evil. Calculate thyself within; seek not thyself in the moon, but

in thine orb of

microcosmical circumference. Let celestial aspects admonish and advertise, not conclude and determine thy ways. For sincegood and bad stars moralize not our actions, and neither excuse nor commend our good o

r

bad deeds at

the present or

last bar; since some areastrologically well disposed who are morally high vicious; not celestialfigures, but virtuous schemes, must dominate and state our actions. If werightly understood the names whereby God calleth the stars; if we knewhis name for the dog-star o

r by

what appellation Jupiter, Mars and Saturnobey his will; it might be a welcome accession unto astrology, whichspeaks great things, and is fain to make use o

f appellations from Greek

and barbaric systems. Whatever influences, impulsions, or

inclinations

there be from the lights above, it were a piece of wisdom to make one of

those wise men who overrule their stars, and with their own militia contendwith the host of heaven.

SIR THOMAS BROwne, Christian Morals.

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Drebictions for the lyear 1708.

WHEREIN THE Month AND DAY of THE MONTH ARE SET Down,THE PERSONS NAMED, AND THE GREAT ACTIONS AND

Events of NExT YEAR PARTICULARLY RELATED,As THEY WILL COME TO PASS.

WRITTEN TO PREVENT THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND FROM BEINGFARTHER IMPOSED ON BY WULGAR ALMANAC-MAKERS.

By ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Esq.

I HAVING long considered the gross abuse of astrology in thiskingdom, and upon debating the matter with myself, I couldnot possibly lay the fault upon the art, but upon those grossimpostors who set up to be the artists. I know several learnedmen have contended that the whole is a cheat; that it is absurd

and ridiculous to imagine the stars can have any influence at

all upon human actions, thoughts or

inclinations: and whoever

has not bent his studies that way, may be

excused for thinkingso, when he sees in how wretched a manner that noble art is

treated by a few mean illiterate traders between us

and thestars; who import a yearly stock of nonsense, lies, folly andimpertinence, which they offer to the world as genuine from

the planets, though they descend from no greater a height

than their own brains.

I intend in a short time to publish a large and rationaldefense o

f this art, and therefore shall say no more in itsjustification a

t present, than that it hath been in all ages

defended by many learned men, and among the rest by

Socrates himself, whom I look upon as undoubtedly the wisest

of uninspired mortals: to which if we add, that those who have

condemned this art, though otherwise learned, having been such

as either did not apply their studies this way, or

at

least did

not succeed in their applications: their testimony will not be of

244 THE SPhinx.

much weight to its disadvantage, since they are liable to the

common objection of condemning what they did not under

stand.

Nor am I at all

offended, or

think it an injury to the art,

when I see the common dealers in it,

the students in astrology,

the Philomaths, and the rest of

that tribe, treated by wise men

with the utmost scorn and contempt; but rather wonder, when

I observe gentlemen in the country, rich enough to serve the

nation in parliament, poring in Partridge's Almanac, to findout the events o

f

the year at

home and abroad; not daring to

propose a hunting match, till Gadbury or

he

have fixed theweather.

I will allow either of the two I have mentioned, or any other

of

the fraternity, to be

not only astrologers, but conjurers too,

if I do not produce a hundred instances in all their almanacs, to

convince any reasonable man, that they do not so much as

understand common grammar and syntax; that they are notable to spell any word out o

f

the usual road, nor even in theirprefaces write common sense o

r intelligible English. Then fortheir observations and predictions, they are such as will equally

suit any age or country in the world. This month a certain

great person will be threatened with death or sickness. Thisthe newspaper will tell them, for there we find at the end o

f

theyear, that no month passes without the death of some person of

note: and it would be hard if it should be otherwise when there

are at

least two thousand persons of note, in this kingdom,

many of

them old, and the almanac-maker has the liberty of

choosing the sickliest season of

the year where he may fix his

prediction. Again, this month an

eminent clergyman will be

preferred; of

which there may be some hundreds, half of

them

with one foot in the grave. Then such a planet in such a

house shows great machinations, plots and conspiracies, thatmay in time be brought to light: after which, if we hear of any

discovery, the astrologer gets the honor, if not his prediction

still stands good. And at last, God preserve King William fromall his open and secret enemies, Amen. When if the king shouldhappen to have died, the astrologer plainly foretold it

;

other

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wise it passes but for the pious ejaculations of a loyal subject:though it unluckily happened in some of their almanacs, thatpoor King William was prayed for many months after he wasdead, because it fell out that he died about the beginning ofthe year.

To mention no more of their impertinent predictions; whathave we to do with their advertisements about pills and medicines, or their mutual quarrels in verse and prose of Whig andTory, wherewith the stars have little to do?Having long observed and lamented these, and a hundred

other abuses of this art, too tedious to repeat, I resolved toproceed in a new way, which I doubt not will be to the generalsatisfaction of the kingdom: I can this year produce but aspecimen of what I design for the future. Having employedmost part of my time in adjusting and correcting the calculations I made for some years past, because I would offernothing to the world of which I am not as fully satisfied, asthat I am now alive. For these two last years I have notfailed in above one or two particulars, and those of no very

great moment. I exactly foretold the miscarriage at Toulon,with a

ll

its particulars; and the loss of

Admiral Shovell,

though I was mistaken as

to the day, placing that accident

about thirty-six hours sooner than it happened; but upon

reviewing my schemes, I quickly found the cause of that error.

I likewise foretold the battle at Almanza to the very day

and hour, with the loss on both sides, and the consequences

thereof. All which I showed to some friends many months

before they happened. That is,I gave them papers sealed up,

to open in such a time, after which they were at liberty to readthem; and there they found my predictions true in every

article, except one or

two very minute.

As for the few following predictions I now offer the world, I

forbore to publish them till I had perused the several almanacsfor the year we are now entered on. I find them a

ll

in theusual strain, and I beg the reader will compare their mannerwith mine: and here I make bold to tell the world, that I laythe whole credit of my art upon the truth of

these predictions;

246 the SPhinx.

and I will be content, that Partridge and the rest of his clan,may hoot me for a cheat and impostor, if I fail in any singleparticular of moment. I believe, any man who reads thispaper will look upon me to be at least a person of as muchhonesty and understanding, as a common maker of almanacs.I do not lurk in the dark; I am not wholly unknown in theworld; I have set my name at length, to be a mark of infamy

to mankind if they shall find I deceive them.In one thing I must desire to be forgiven, that I talkmore sparingly of home affairs: as it would be imprudence

to discover secrets of state, so it would be dangerous to myperson; but in smaller matters, and that are not of publicconsequence, I shall be very free; and the truth of myconjectures will as much appear from these as the other. Asfor the most signal events abroad in France, Flanders, Italy

and Spain, I shall make no scruple to predict them in plainterms: some of them are of importance, and I hope I shallseldom mistake the day they will happen; therefore I thinkgood to inform the reader, that I all along make use of the oldstyle observed in England, which I desire he will compare withthat o

f

the newspapers, at

the time they relate the actions

I mention.

I must add one word more; I know it hath been theopinion o

f

several learned, who think well enough of

the

true art of astrology, that the stars do only incline, and not

force, the actions or

wills of

men: and therefore, however,

I may proceed by right rules, yet I cannot in prudence so

confidently assure the events will follow exactly as I pre

dict them.

I hope I have maturely considered this objection, which

in some cases is of

no

little weight: for example; a manmay, by the influence o

f

an over-ruling planet, be disposed

or

inclined to lust, rage, or avarice, and yet by the force

of

reason overcome that bad influence; and this was the

case of Socrates: but the great events of the world usuallydepend upon numbers o

f men, it cannot be expected they

should all unite to cross their inclinations, from pursuing a

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general design, wherein they unanimously agree. Besides, the

influence of the stars reaches to many actions and events,

which are not any way in the power of reason; as sickness,death, and what we commonly call accidents, with manymore, needless to repeat.

But now it is time to proceed to my predictions, whichI have begun to calculate from the time that the Sun entersinto Aries. And this I take to be properly the beginningof the natural year. I pursue them to the time that heenters Libra, or somewhat more, which is the busy period

of the year. The remainder I have not yet adjusted, uponaccount of several impediments needless here to mention:besides, I must remind the reader again, that this is but aspecimen of what I design in succeeding years to treat moreat large, if I may have liberty and encouragement.My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I will mention it

,

to

show how ignorant these sottish pretenders to astrology are

in their own concerns: it relates to Partridge, the almanacmaker; I have consulted the stars o

f his nativity by my

own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of

March next, about eleven at night, ofa raging fever; there

fore, I advise him to consider of it,

and settle his affairs in time.

The month of April will be observable for the death of

many great persons. On the 4th will die the Cardinal de

Noailles, Archbishop of

Paris. On the 11th the young Prince

of Asturias, son to the Duke of Anjou. On the 14th a great

peer of

this realm will die at his country house. On the 19th

an old layman of great fame for learning, and on the 23d an

eminent goldsmith in Lombard street. I could mentionothers, both a

t

home and abroad, if I did not consider it is of

very little use or

instruction to the reader, orto the world.

As to public affairs, on the 7th of this month there will be

an insurrection in Dauphine, occasioned by the oppressions of

the people, which will not be quieted in some months.On the 15th will be a violent storm on

the southeast coast

of France, which will destroy many of their ships, and some in

the very harbor.

248 THE SPHINX.

The 19th will be famous for the revolt of a whole province

or kingdom, excepting one city, by which the affairs of a certainprince in the alliance will take a better face.May, against common conjectures, will be no very busy

month in Europe, but very signal for the death of the Dauphin,

which will happen on the 7th, after a short fit

of sickness, and

grievous torments with the strangury. He dies less lamentedby the court than the kingdom.

On the 9th a marshal of

France will break his leg by a

fall from his horse. I have not been able to discover whetherhe will then die or not.

On the 11th will begin a most important seige, which theeyes o

f

all Europe will be upon. I cannot be more particular,

for in relating affairs that so nearly concern the Confederates,

and consequently this kingdom, I am forced to confine myself

for several reasons very obvious to the reader.

On the 15th news will arrive ofa very surprising event, than

which nothing could be more unexpected.

On the 19th three noble ladies of this kingdom will, against

all expectation, give birth to sons, to the great joy of their

husbands.

On the 23d a famous buffoon of

the play-house will die aridiculous death, suitable to his vocation.

JUNE.—This month will be distinguished at home by the

utter dispersing of

those ridiculous deluded enthusiasts, commonly called the prophets, occasioned chiefly by seeing thetime come that many o

f their prophecies should be fulfilled,

and then finding themselves deceived by contrary events. It

is indeed to be admired how any deceiver can be so weak to

foretell things near at hand, when a very few months must of

necessity discover the imposture to all

the world; in this point

less prudent than common almanac-makers, who are so wise

to wander in generals and walk dubiously, and leave to the

reader the business of interpreting.

On the 1st of

this month a French general will be killed by

a random shot ofa cannon-ball.

On the 6th a fire will break out in the suburbs of Paris, which

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will destroy above a thousand houses, and seems to be the foreboding of what will happen, to the surprise of al

l

Europe, aboutthe end o

f

the following month.

On the 10th a great battle will be fought, which will begin at

four o'clock in the afternoon, and last till nine at night withgreat obstinacy, but no very decisive event. I shall not namethe place, for the reasons aforesaid; but the commanders on

each left wing will be killed. I see bonfires, and hear thenoise o

f guns for a victory.

On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king'sdeath.

On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysentery, withgreat suspicion o

f poison; but the report of his intentions to

revolt to King Charles, will prove false.JULY.— The 6th o

f

this month a certain general will, by

a glorious action, recover the reputation he lost by formermisfortunes.

On the 12th a great commander will die a prisoner inthe hands of his enemies.

On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made, of a French

Jesuit giving poison to a great foreign general, and when he

is

put to the torture, will make wonderful discoveries.

In short, this will prove a month of great action, if I mighthave liberty to relate the particulars.

At home, the death of an old famous senator will happen

on

the 15th at

his country house, worn with age and diseases.

But that which will make this month memorable to all pos

terity is the death of

the French king, Louis the Fourteenth,

after a week's sickness at Marli, which will happen on the 29th,

about six o'clock in the evening. It seems to be

an

effect of

the gout in his stomach, followed by a fever. And in threedays after Monsieur Chamillard will follow his master, dying

suddenly of

an apoplexy.

In this month likewise an ambassador will die in London,

but I cannot assign the day.August.— The affairs of

France will seem to suffer no change

fora while under the Duke of Burgundy's administration; but

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the genius that animated the whole machine being gone, willbe the cause of mighty turns and revolutions in the following

year. The new king makes yet little change either in the army

or the ministry, but the libels against his grandfather that fly

about his very court, give him uneasiness.

I see an express in mighty haste, with joy and wonder in hislooks, arriving by break of day on the 26th of this month,

having traveled in three days a prodigious journey by landand sea. In the evening I hear bells and guns, and see theblazing of a thousand bonfires.A young admiral of noble birth does likewise this monthgain immortal honor by a great achievement.The affairs of Poland are this month entirely settled:Augustus resigns his pretentions, which he had again taken up

for some time: Stanislaus is peaceably possessed of the throne,

and the King of Sweden declares for the Emperor.I cannot omit one particular accident here at home, thatnear the end of this month much mischief will be done at

Bartholomew Fair by the fall of a booth.September.—This month begins with a very surprising fit

of frosty weather, which will last nearly twelve days.

The Pope having long languished last month, the swellings

in his legs breaking, and the flesh mortifying, will die on

the

11th instant, and in three weeks' time, after a mighty contest,

be

succeeded by a Cardinal of

the Imperial Faction, but native

of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old.

The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly

fortified in their trenches; and the young French king sendsovertures for a treaty o

f peace, by the Duke of Mantua; which,

because it is a matter of state that concerns us here at home,

I shall speak no farther of it.

I shall add but one prediction more, and that in mysticalterms, which shall be

included in a verse out of Virgil.

Alter erit jam Tethys, & altera qua vehat Argo,Dilectos Heroas.

Upon the 25th day of this month, the fulfilling of

this pre

diction will be manifest to everybody.

PREDICTIONS For THE YEAR 1708. 25 I

This is the farthest I have proceeded in my calculations forthe present year. I do not pretend that these are al

l

the great

events which will happen in this period, but that those I haveset down will infallibly come to pass. It will perhaps still beobjected, why I have not spoke more particularly of affairs at

home, or

of

the success of

our armies abroad, which I mightand could very largely have done; but those in power havewisely discouraged men from meddling in public concerns, and

I was resolved by no means to give the least offence. This I

will venture to say: that it will be a glorious campaign for theallies, wherein the English forces, both by sea and land, will

have their full share of

honor: that Her Majesty Queen Annewill continue in health and prosperity, and, that no ill accidentwill arrive to any in the chief ministry.

As to the particular events I have mentioned, the readersmay judge by the fulfilling of them, whether I am o

fthe level

with common astrologers, who, with an

old paltry cant, and a

few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have, in myopinion, too long been suffered to abuse the world; but an honest physician ought not to be despised because there are suchthings as mountebanks. I hope I have some share of reputation, which I would not willingly forfeit for a frolic or humor;and I believe no gentleman who reads this paper will look upon

it to be of

the same cast or

mould with the common scribblers

that are every day hawked about. My fortune has placed meabove the little regard o

f scribbling for a few pence, which I

neither value nor want. Therefore let not wise men too hastily

condemn this essay, intended for a good design to cultivate andimprove an ancient art, long in disgrace by having fallen intomean unskillful hands. A little time will determine whether I

have deceived others, or myself; and I think it is no very un

reasonable request, that men would please to suspend theirjudgments until then. I was once of the opinion with thosewho despise all predictions from the stars, until, in the year

1686, a man of quality showed me written in his album, that the

most learned astronomer, Captain H., assured him he wouldnever believe anything of the stars' influence, if there were not a

252the SPHINX.

great revolution in England in the year 1688. Since that time

I began to have other thoughts, and, after eighteen years diligent study and application, I think I have no reason to repentof my pains. I shall detain the reader no longer than to lethim know, that the account I design to give of next year'sevents shall take in the principal affairs that happen in Europe;

and if I be denied the liberty of offering it to my own country,I shall appeal to the learned world by publishing it in Latin,and giving order to have it printed in Holland.

DEAN Swift.

“SkEPTICISM is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see thatas he eats, so he thinks; as he deals, so he is and so he appears. He doesnot see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are notsomewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany; noexemption; no anomaly,– but method and an even web; and what comesout, that was put in. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done tous. We are the builders of our fortunes; cant and lying, and the attempt

to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked andvain. But in the human mind this tie of faith is made alive. The law is

the basis of the human mind. In us it is inspiration; out there in Naturewe see it

s

fatal strength. We call it the moral sentiment. We owe to

the Hindu scriptures a definition of law, which compares well with any in

our Western books. “Law it is,

which is without name, or color, or hands,

or feet; which is smallest of

the least and largest of

the large; all, andknowing a

ll things; which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moveswithout feet, and seizes without hands.”

EMERSON, on Worship.

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16írtboap information ano Qailp Biowicefor ſIDap.

Babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and indeed ifthey could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babiesat particular epochs. “A'omola.”— GEORGE ELIOT.

1. Tuesday. It is not a good day, but with care you canjourney, but look sharp about money affairs, and avoid all risks.Your coming year will bring many troubles and much discontent. Financial losses are spoken of, and you will need toguard all outlays and avoid al

l

speculative matters. Changes are

in order, with losses therefrom. Be careful of

sickness as well.

2. Wednesday. Today is favorable in general. Visit, force

matters, approach superiors, ask favors and seek employment.

Your coming year favors you somewhat, and matters in general will improve. There is some ease in home affairs, withadditions to your circle and new friends. Be up and doing, takereasonable chances, and make such changes as your judgmentprompts.

3. Thursday. Care is advised today. Attend to ordinary

affairs and avoid new undertakings, but be guarded in finance.

Your coming year will be an anxious one in many ways, and

it is not unlikely that considerable losses will come to you as

the months go by. Look to sickness, especially if advanced in

years. A bereavement is strongly indicated.

4. Friday. It is unfavorable. Look sharp to all

matters,attending closely to ordinary duties.

5. Saturday. It is somewhat favorable today. Ask favors,

approach superiors, visit friends and seek amusements.

Your coming year is somewhat favorable in the main, and withclose attention to your affairs improvements will come. Look

to all changes, however, and be not too free with additions to

your affairs.

6. Sunday. It is not a good day, so rest and keep quiet.

Your coming year will be full of troubles, and you will haveyour hands full to make both ends meet. Guard your finances

at

all times, look to your social and home affairs, and be careful

of

sickness. When in difficulty consult an astrologer.

254 the SPHINx.

7. Monday. It is an excellent day for all purposes. Journey, visit, seek amusement and make every hour count.Your anniversary is a favorable one, and matters in generalwill increase. New friends, additional financial favors, andsocial improvements are in order. Do not fritter the time away,and remember it will not always last.

8. Tuesday. It is not good today, and care and quietnessis advised.

You are confronted with an active and contentious year. Indomestic and home affairs trouble is indicated, and disputes inlaw matters, which should be strongly avoided. Look well toyour pleasures and be guarded in your friendships. Be carefulof fire and theft.

9. Wednesday. It is somewhat favorable today. Be active,attend to matters of ordinary purport and work hard.Your coming year contains both good and evil in its promisesand needs care, making no additions to your present affairs thatare of a speculative nature, and looking well to outlay. Youmay pass the year intact; otherwise, losses will occur and somesetbacks.

IO. Thursday. Today is unfavorable for new affairs, socialmatters and all financial favors.

Your coming year is a troublesome one, and misfortunes willcome at various times. Look sharp to home affairs, guardagainst sickness to the young, and make every dollar count.Some good friends will help you out, so be deserving.

II. Friday. It is a very fair day. Journey and change, visitfriends and seek amusement. It is good for business affairs.Your anniversary is in the main favorable for you, and withattention to your affairs matters will improve. Some agreeablechanges, with a pleasant journey or two, are probable. Be careful of your expenses.

12. Saturday. It is not over good. Look sharp to businessaffairs, avoid controversy and take no risks.

Your coming year will be a vexatious one, with many misfortunes appearing. Look well to home affairs, be guardedin friendships, do not risk money in any form, or branch out inyour affairs.

I 3. Sunday. Today is favorable for amusements, to visitfriends, but journeys and changes should be avoided. Do notwrite.

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You have an active year, and both good and evil will appearduring the same. Note well all changes, look sharp to whatyou attach your name to ; avoid law and opposition, and in soabiding, much good will come to you.

14. Monday. It is an evil day in general. Look sharp toall matters and attend closely to your duties.

Your coming year is not a good one, and there will be muchthat will occur to cause anxiety. Sickness, financial losses, domestic afflictions and loss of friends. Be guarded in all affairs.

I5. Tuesday. It is a good day in general. Be up anddoing and make everything count. Ask favors, seek employment and visit friends.

Your coming year promises fairly well, and while it will berather quiet in the main, yet improvements will be steady.Gain through friends and by your own exertions. Take allreasonable chances, and help your brother in distress.

16. Wednesday. Today is unfavorable. Look well tofinance, and avoid changes, journeys and amusements.Your coming year will be somewhat strange in its termination. Changes are spoken of, and losses in peculiar ways aswell. Trust not too freely strangers or friends, and be guardedin promises.

17. Thursday. Altogether it is an evil day. Look well todisputes, changes and a

ll

financial affairs. Guard your health.Your coming year will bring to you many difficulties, andnothing but the closest attention to a

ll

matters will allow you

to pass the same without some misfortune. Sickness, changes,probable bereavement and losses by writings, and risks. Consult a

n astrologer.

18. Friday. It is not over good this day, but with care youcan visit and seek amusements; but avoid changes, and do nottake any risk.

Your coming year is an unfavorable one, and there will be

much that will occur of

an unpleasant nature. Losses in

various ways: by writings, through disputes, and because of

social matters and pleasures; but all

this can be changed byclose attention to your duties.

19. Saturday. Care should be

exercised today in all

affairs.

Your coming year is not good, and there will be many trialsand anxieties appearing. Avoid disputes, do not court opposition, and be careful of outlays. Some sickness is apparent.

256 The SPHINX.

20. Sunday. It is rather a good day. Use it for such matters as may be convenient, but hold your temper. Go tochurch.

Your coming year can be made with close attention to youraffairs, a favorable one; while neglect to important matters,both in finance and in pleasure, will end the same on the wrongside of the ledger.

2 I. Monday. It is an unfavorable day, so be governedaccordingly.

Your coming year will bring much misfortune, and there isneed for close attention to all your affairs. Domestic affliction,disputes with superiors, sickness, also loss of position, businessand finance.

22. Tuesday. It is rather favorable today for general matters, but care is advised in changes and financial affairs.

Your coming year will be an active one, with changes andjourneys. Some financial benefits are indicated, that will beenhanced with close attention to your affairs. Be guarded at

all

times in expenses.

23. Wednesday. It is somewhat favorable for businessaffairs, journeys and friendship proffered; but avoid disputes.

Both good and evil marks the promises of your coming year,

and you will need to exercise great care in all matters to makeboth ends meet. Avoid law and disputes, be careful o

f

fire andaccident, and note well who your friends are.

24. Thursday. It is favorable for journeys, to ask favors,look for employment, write letters, visit friends and seek amusement.

You have an active year this coming one, and your attentionwill be directed in many ways. Some favors will be shown withmoney prospects, though your expenses will be heavy. Look to

your health, and do not change too often.

25. Friday. It is an unfavorable day. Avoid changes, socialadvances and money transactions, and be careful o

f

accidents.

The coming year will bring many troubles to you, and youraffairs will cause you grave anxiety. There will be home disturbances, sickness within your circle, financial losses andunfavorable changes; so look out at all times.

26. Saturday. Today is favorable for important matters,favors and friendships. Avoid changes, do not travel, and bepatient.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, MAY. 257

Your coming year will be a contentious one, with many difficulties abounding. Losses by fire, theft, and through foolishventures. You should avoid disputes and litigation, and becareful in your choice of friends and temperate in your pleasure.

27. Sunday. It is moderately good, so rest.The coming year seems to favor you somewhat, though careis needed in social matters and family affairs. Look tosickness, do not take financial risks.

28. Monday. Great care is advised today. Avoid allfinancial dealing, and look to commands from your superiors.

Your anniversary is not favorable in the main. Gravetroubles in financial matters, losses through poor judgment,and badly advised moves, also from changes as well as journeys.Spend not too freely, and look well to your pleasures.

29. Tuesday. It is moderately good for ordinary affairs,but postpone matters of importance and start nothing new.

Your coming year is a quiet though not a favorable one.Financial difficulties are indicated, some domestic troubles, andchanges of a nature bearing directly on such.

30. Wednesday. It is an evil day, so be governedaccordingly.

Your anniversary, though in the main quiet, is unfavorable,and the year will bring misfortune. Sickness, possible bereavement, financial losses, and troubles from supposed friends. Beguarded at all times, and make no additions to your affairs.31. Thursday. Today is favorable for amusements, friendships, letters, changes and journeys.

Your coming year is in the main somewhat favorable, andthere will be improvements over the closing one. Some socialrecognition and help from influential friends. Be up and doing,take reasonable chances, and remember the under fellow.

ASTOR.

The above birthday information is for those whose birthdays occur thismonth regardless of the year and the hour. Any one born, for instance, onMay 16 will experience during the year some of the conditions mentioned on that day.The daily advice is worth considering and watching, and if followed

will bring quicker and surer results. On evil days always keep still, foreven if you try to push matters you will find eventually they will not amountto anything.

The good or bad fortune of a person on any particular day dependsmainly on the particular conditions operating in the nativity, and the redor black degrees the Moon is transiting in the speculum.— Ed.

258 THE SPHINX.

(Ibe Elmerican (5rammar of Előtrology.

CHAPTER XIII. DESCRIPTIONS OF PERSONS BORN witHPLANETS IN EITHER OF THE Twelve SIGNs.

AQUARIUS ON THE ASCENDANT WITH

Herschel in Aries.

Rather tall, lean and well made, with light hair, grey or

hazel eyes, ruddy complexion: strong constitution, ambitious and quick tempered.

Herschel in Taurus.

Short, thick-set person, dark hair and deep-set eyes;

stout, with a dark complexion, short neck; passionate,

revengeful, conceited and luxurious.

Herschel in Gemini.

A tall, thin stature; brown hair and grey eyes; a gooddisposition, fond of science, eccentric, generous and inventive.

Herschel in Cancer.

A short, thick-set, corpulent body, pale complexion, brownhair and grey eyes; conceited, bigoted, eccentric andunmanageable.

Herschel in Leo.

Full-sized stature, broad, strong shoulders, light brown

hair and sandy beard, firm walk; generous, fond of military display, rather proud and conceited.

Herschel in Virgo.-

Short stature, dark hair and eyes, thin body, small bones;eccentric, fond of curiosities and novelties, studious, scientific and close in worldly matters.

Herschel in Libra.

Fine stature, well-made, oval face, light hair and sanguinecomplexion; scientific, ambitious and easily displeased.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 259

Herschel in Scorpio. -

Short, thick-set body, broad shoulders; dark complexion,

dark hair and eyes, deceitful, given to drink and pleasure,

and a most undesirable person when Herschel is afflicted

in this sign by a bad aspect of Saturn or Mars.

Herschel in Sagittarius.

Tall stature, light hair and eyes, high forehead and goodcomplexion; generous, enthusiastic and fond of sports.

Herschel in Capricorn.

Below the middle stature, but well-made with a short neck,

high forehead, dark hair and eyes; proud, austere andpossessing few good qualities.

Herschel in Aquarius.

Above the middle stature, brown hair and eyes, well-made

and handsome; ingenious, fond of science and novelties,

possessing a good disposition.

Herschel in Pisces.

Medium stature, light or pale complexion, dark hair andeyes, a bad walk, ugly hands or feet; dull, dejected anddespised.

CAPRICORN ON THE ASCENDANT WITH

Saturn in Aries.

A thin person with a ruddy complexion, full face, darkhair and a thin beard; resolute, quarrelsome, and fond ofboasting.

Saturn in Taurus.

A plain person with dark hair and a heavy awkwardappearance; middle stature, miserly and not refined.

Saturn in Gemini.

Rather tall, a dark complexion, oval face with dark brownhair; ingenious, unpolished, perverse and generally unfortunate.

Saturn in Cancer.

Middle stature, rather short, feeble, thin face, dark hair

and languid eyes; body sometimes crooked; jealous anddeceitful.

26O the SPHINX.

Saturn in Leo.Moderately large stature, broad, round shoulders, widechest, light hair, large bones, surly and apt to stoop; hastolerably good qualities, generous, passionate, and not very

courageous when put to the test.

Saturn in Virgo.Tall, thin body, with thick dark hair; long head, is gener

ally unfortunate and apt to be melancholy, retains anger;studious, subtle, reserved and inclined to underhand dealings.

Saturn in Libra.

Above the middle stature and comely with brown hair,

oval face, large nose and forehead, clear complexion;

prodigal of expense, satisfied with himself, given to controversy, and seldom leaving anything behind him.

Saturn in Scorpio.

Mean stature, thick body, broad shoulders, dark hair,

which is often thick; quarrelsome, mischievous; one who

will undertake violent and dangerous actions to his owndetriment.

Saturn in Sagittarius.

Large body, brown hair, good complexion and nice disposition, not covetous, frugal, quick-tempered; will not bear

an affront, yet willing to do good to all; a good friend anda merciful enemy.

Saturn in Capricorn.

Lean body, dark hair and dark complexion, middle stature,

small eyes, long face, stoops in walking; peevish, discontented, melancholy, covetous; of few words, fearful, grave

and unforgiving.

Saturn in Aquarius.

Full-bodied person, with a large head and face, rather

inclined to corpulency, middle stature, dull brown hair,

clear complexion, sober graceful deportment; affable andcourteous, with an excellent fancy, generally proficient in

what he undertakes; of a pregnant genius but conceited.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 26 I

Jaturn in Pisces.

Middle stature, pale complexion, dull or black hair, large

head and a full eye; sometimes crooked teeth; not handsome; active in mischief, deceitful, given to contention;

uncertain and fickle, though often presenting a good exterior; not loguacious, deliberate in planning evil but willimprove as he grows older.

[To be continued.]

Go fetch me down my planet-bookStraight from my private room;

For in the same I mean to lookWhat is decreed my doom.The planet-book to her they brought,And laid it on her knee;

She found that all

would come to nought,

For poisoned she should be.ROSAMOND, in an old ballad.

“TO CUT HAIRE.”

“HAIRE cut groweth well, the Moon increasing, being in Taurus, Virgoor Libra.

Cutting, Shaving, Clipping in the wane causeth baldness; what is then

cut groweth little.

The best time of Cutting is in Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, in the wane.”

(Found in an old book printed by

“Felix Kyngstone, London, 1605” forThomas Digges, being a revised and augmented edition o

fa work by

hisfather, Leonard Digges, Gentleman.)

262 The SPhinx.

fºoted ano Querieg.

A coRRespondent sends us some interesting prophecies,

which recently appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, by

Dr. Max Muenhlenbruch, and asks if we know who Muenhlenbruch is and where he lives? We had never heard of him,but, curiously enough, the same mail brought a periodical from

Melbourne giving not only his address but his likeness. Dr.Muenhlenbruch lives in California, his would-be enquirer writesfrom Texas, his address is advertised in Australia to be forwarded from Boston, four places very widely apart.

For the benefit of our readers we give a few of his recentprophecies.

McKinley will run again and be defeated.W. J. Bryan will be the next president of the United States.Admiral Dewey will die before 1902.Mark Hanna will collapse from apoplexy within two years.Ireland will be free.

The Prince of Wales will die in 1905.America will experience three wars before 1910 has closed. One ofthese wars will come through the interference of another nation.Much upheaval and bloodshed will occur in the United States through

different causes. However, better conditions will begin from Sept. 18,1908, and from 1910 to 1925 peace and tranquility will reign. Financialconditions will improve and prosperity will be found among all classes ofpeople.

Mexico will be annexed to the United States before 1910, and before1925 has passed the South American republics will be annexed to America.

There will be much bloodshed in connection with these undertakings.

The Prince of Wales will not keep the throne and 1905 will see himpass to the life beyond. The next in line will succeed to the throne, twoof whom will hold short terms.

Radical as it may seem, Ireland will eventually cut loose from England

and be a power by herself.

France is to have another revolution that will wipe out the republic, andthen an outside nation will step in and amalgamate the French people.

Within ten years Germany will have three emperors; and the emperorof China will be assassinated.

NOTES AND QUERIES. 263

MR. B. C. Murray, of Denison, Texas, who has beencollecting astrological books for the past thirty years, hasan astral library of something like two hundred boundvolumes, besides numerous pamphlets. In his collection, aswould be imagined, there are a number of varieties, which

include a few manuscripts. Of the latter probably the mostcurious, and which is undoubtedly unique, is a volume of 1,010pages, bound in calf, marble edges. Size of the book 3} by 6inches, and nearly three inches thick. The handwriting isexceedingly curious, and difficult to decipher on account of theodd forms of the letters and the numerous unfamiliar abbre

viations; yet the writer was undoubtedly an expert penman.

There is an average of twenty-five lines to the page with halfinch margins. The horoscopal figures are all neatly drawn.“So far as I have been able to decipher the contents,” Mr.Murray writes, “it appears to me to be an original work, andtreats of every branch of the science, mundane or state astrology, horary questions, elections, nativities, etc.” The ink isfaded somewhat in some places but not enough to renderany portion illegible. There is an interesting chapter on the“Legality and Excellency of Astrology,” and a list of astrolog

ical books extant at that day, as a sort of appendix, which

latter was copied from Lilly's Christian Astrology. The dateof this unique volume is 1675.

Another manuscript in Mr. Murray's collection which willno doubt interest present day astrologers, is “The Nativity ofa Gentleman Astronomically and Astrologically Performed,” by

John Gadbury, heavy paper, over two hundred pages, abouthalf of them blank. The binding is dark blue morocco, gold

tooled on sides, gilt edges—a fine specimen of binding. Size7 by 9 inches. The writing is beautifully executed, twenty

two lines to the page, and the ink is as black as whenwritten. Supposed to be the handwriting of Gadbury himself.The Native, the subject of the one hundred and one manuscriptpages, was born in June, 1642, and as Mr. Gadbury commences

his Annual Judgments with 1661, the date of the manuscript

would appear to be that year. The volume opens with the

264 The SPHINX.

natal figure neatly drawn, which the author is careful to state

was corrected by accidents. A table of directions of the five“hylegiacall” places to 1670 follows, and a judgment on thetwelve houses occupies the next twenty-three pages. Theremainder of the manuscript is devoted to particular judgments

on each annual revolution, to and including the native's 54thbirthday. A revolutionary figure, which with a list of theprimary directions occupies a page, is given for each year.

This unique manuscript came from the Chandos library,

England.

Eðitorial.

We are much obliged for the answers received in response toDr. Aziz Uddin Ahmad Khan's query regarding a work on“Talismans.”

IN the “Horoscope by One of the Raphaels,” in the Easternumber Neptune (W) should be inserted in the eighth house,

in the place of Mercury ( ; ).OUR circulation for the month of April has shown an increaseof several thousand copies, and we are pleased to hear from

some of our advertisers, that they too are feeling the good

effects of our efforts to bring astrology more prominently before

the public.

For various reasons, we have decided to republish in a muchlarger form, Professor Chaney's valuable work, “The VadeMecum,” so that he may be able to make some important

additions to it. Being in his eightieth year, he feels that this

is the last book he will ever write, and is anxious that it shall

be

as complete as possible. No work like the “Vade Mecum”

has ever been published before, and it will be a text-book forastrologers for ages to come. Commencing the work again willgive many persons the opportunity to subscribe for TheSPHINx, and thus to secure “The Vade Mecum ” from the beginning, without waiting for it to appear in book form, for it

will be many months before we can possibly publish it,

so great

is the demand upon our time for other work.

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Che 5pbímr.

Vol. II. JUNE, 1900.-

No. 5.

Qūbe 35tar Of Bethlebem.

IN ancient times,

Ere Saturn's rebel son usurped the skies; . . .Ere senate's mad decrees man ever saw,

Or heard at bawling bars corrupted law;

Ere patriot fools, for pop'lar praise, aspired

To public speeches which worse fools admired;Ere through ambition, or, through thirst for gold

Men slew their brothers, or their country sold;

— Virgil.

Ere this condition of the world had become prevalent, man'shighest aspiration, and prayer to the muses was:

Give me the way of wand'ring stars to know.

Ancient star lore was still in so high repute some two thousandyears ago, that not only the Magi of the East, but kings upon

their thrones, and the great masses of the people were watching for a certain long-predicted phenomenon in the heavens

which would signal the advent, or visitation of a God, a Saviorof fallen man'

What was this phenomenon, this signal, this star of Bethlehem, the whole human race was so much interested in PWell, it was something in connection with the Earth's entering the Virgin of the Zodiac. This Virgin was to give a God tofallen humanity |

The Sibylline books, the oracles, the holy prophets, and theangel Gabriel had all

marked the time of

the Earth's passing

into Virgo, and all

the world watched for the star of

Bethlehem265

266 THE SPHINX.

By interpretation, Bethlehem means “the house of bread";

that is,

the house, or sign of Ceres, or Virgo with her handful

of

wheat. The star of

this Bethlehem is Mercury the Lord of

the sign, who has his “exaltation” here in his own house.

A fact that substantiates this is that the Jews refused to recognize Jesus as the anticipated Redeemer because h

e was Nebo or

Mercury; and their redemption was to come through Michael,

the angel of

the Sun: that is,

they had no faith nor hope in

any redemption while the Earth was in the dominion of Mer

cury; for the appointed signal of their salvation was the Earth'sentrance into Leo, dominion o

fthe Sun, and o

f

their Prince,

Michael. The Hindu god, Buddha, is said to be regent of theplanet Mercury.

However, the sign of

the Virgin was to bring forth a God;

and notable among the aspirants to identity with the divine

Visitant were Caesar Augustus of Rome, Apollonius of Tyana,

and Jesus of Nazareth; while Josephus, Tacitus, and othersclaimed it for Vespasian.

Of these claimants we will select Augustus, whose original

name was Octavius — from being the octave of—? He

espoused the name of Augustus because Virgo, the sign of

his advent, rules August in the great year, or cycle.

Concerning the nature and mission of

the anticipated Deity,Virgil, AEneis, Book 6

,

says:

But next behold the youth of form divine,Caesar himself exalted in his line;

Augustus, promised oft, and long foretold,

Sent to the realm that Saturn ruled of old;

Born to restore a better age of gold. *

To solve the mystery of Octavius Augustus, whose divinemission was to restore the golden Saturnian Age, we must perceive the fact that he was the octave, the utas o

f Saturn, or therepetition o

f

himself in the number eight both as to the planets

and the zodiacal signs; thus: Saturn, Jupiter, Planetoids, Mars,

Earth, Moon, Venus, Mercury (the eighth): Again, beginning

with Saturn's house,_Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini,

Cancer, Leo, Virgo (the eighth, or Octavius Augustus, house

of Mercury).

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 267

Bethlehem-Virgo, the house of bread, is the octave of theancient Saturnian Commune; and Jesus in giving bread andwine in communion did it as a combined memorial and symbol

ism of Saturn's happy Commonwealth, of the bread symbol, or

wheat held by Virgo, and the wine cups by which Virgo is surrounded—the cup at her head, and the cup on the shield ofthe Centaur below her. Jesus endeavored to impress the ideaof he and his Father being one, in the music of the spheres, thesame as all octaves in the gamut are repetition notes.Thus far in tracing the Star of Bethlehem we have consideredit in connection with the Earth : but the Sun's position at thetime must also be taken into account.

When the Earth, in the procession of the Equinoxes, wasentering Virgo, the Sun opposite, was in the overlapping ofAries, Pisces, and the Whale; and in Burrett's Geography ofthe Heavens, chap. on “Cetus,” we find as a very curiouscoincidence, that when the equinoctial Sun was over the head

of the Whale it was called the Deliverer, or Savior/Turning to— “Star of the Wise Men”—Smith's Dic. of theBible, we see upon authority of Kepler and others, that inthe year 7 B. C. just at this point in the heavens, Saturn andJupiter were three times in conjunction.Thus we see that on both sides of the heavens Saturn was

at that time struggling to reinstate himself, and to restore hisGolden Age to the fallen race of men: but the opposing influences of his rebel son, Jupiter, the close proximity to the place

of his fall, and the on-coming Dark Ages of the Whale'sbelly,– rendered his struggle futile, and he had to wait amore auspicious configuration.

Now in figuring upon a more auspicious time for the restor

ation of Israel (Saturn) let us note that in the line of theCaesars, there had been for the July of their cycle, a JuliusCaesar; for August an Augustus Caesar; and in pursuance ofthe line, the next advent will be another Caesar for September

of the cycle, or the sign Libra: and, for the correctness ofwhich calculation, we find in Virgil, Georgic I, the prophecyof a Caesar.

268 The SPHINX.

Whose undetermined state,

Is yet the business of the god's debate.

And seated near the BalanceWhere, in the void of heaven, a space is free

Betwixt the Scorpion and the Maid, for thee.

Thus, according to Virgil, who but reproduces the Sibylline

lore and prophecies, the next advent of the Caesarean mystery

will be in the place of the cycle's September:— and it is in theauspicious skies of the Balance that Saturn comes to his exaltation/

Saturn will reach Libra, and his exaltation in the new Era insomething over two decades. By that time his opponent,Jupiter will have fallen; what Jesus called “the Gates of hell,”and what in the Scandinavian Mythology is called the Ragnarok, will be passed; the Sun will be shining gloriously fromAquarius, the day house of Saturn; and the Earth will haveentered Leo, the house of the Sun: there will be shining a newVenus, a new Mars, and a new Moon :- and Saturnian timeswill have rolled round again.

With the Earth's entrance into the Lion, the seals of mystery

will be broken; and about fifteen years hence when Neptune

(the earth's octave) joins us in Leo a most marvelous flood ofunderstanding, knowledge, and wisdom will burst upon us; forNeptune, under auspicious skies, will teach us all things.According to Virgil, Georgic 4.

In the Carpathian bottom makes abodeThe shepherd of the seas, a prophet and a god.

He sees what is,

what was, and is to come,

This Neptune gave him.

This conjunction of Earth, Neptune, and Michael — the

Angel of

the Sun is the configuration which brings the restoration of Israel.

ANNA PHAROS.

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 269

El Chapter in Chaloean thistory ano philogopbp.

(Translated from the Spanish by Heinrich Dāath.)

The regions of Asia, so flourishing in remote times, offer atthe present day an afflicting spectacle of desolation: in themexisted powerful and glorious empires, opulent towns raisedthemselves, and in their vicinity lived a population both numerous and active. In those vast tracts, sad and silent now, reigned

one day civilization with all its

anxieties and splendors.

Of this, not a vestige remains; mankind has abandoned somesites—apparently accursed — and the monuments destined to

remain through the centuries have returned to the dust whencethey came. At least, no ruin presents itself to the sight of thetraveler during entire day marches, and only with great labor is

he able to distinguish between Bagdad and Hamadan indications o

f

the great Assyrian highway attributed to Semiramis.

But farther on, at the margins of the Euphrates, the countryappears a

s though sown with stones and remains of edifices,

while in the distance along the line of

the horizon rises a cumbrous mass o

f vague and uncertain color; it is the ruins of

Babel.

About six hours south of Hilla one encounters a species of

oblong hillock, whose base occupies some two thousand threehundred feet; it is a human work, and the hand of man securing the bricks o

f

its

fabric with indestructible mortar, raised it

to the height of two hundred feet. The colossus is truncatedabout the middle, enormous fragments lie a

t

the base, broken

from the upper portion, and nearly vitrified, preserve signs of

some intense and awful fire.

Of the eight floors or

stories which formerly composed theedifice, only two now remain standing. It is a compact mass

of

some sixty feet, in the form ofa tower, deeply fissured, and

exhibiting upon the western side the aspect ofa pyramid. On

its apex rest the clouds, in its

sides the lions have their lair,

and everything upon its

site breathes horror and desolation.

270 THE SPHINx.

Thus then, from the earliest ages of the world these ruinsdate, and which yet preserve in their actual name, record ofNimrod, the mighty hunter (el fuerte cazador), and withoutdoubt one of the principal among the mighty magnates whoconceived the audacious idea of the work. There however it

is,

on

the margin of

the Euphrates, like a first and gigantic

result of

the strength of mankind; an interrupted monument

of

the human pride which gave it origin twenty-seven centuriesbefore our era, nevertheless remaining a

s

an imperishable testi

mony of

divine truth.

Babel must have been from the beginning a center of do

minion and power; the congregation of people, conformed in

numerous ways all round the immense edifice, favored the formation o

fa weighty state, and likewise succeeded. Close to

Babel rises Babylon (Bab-il-u, gate of the gods of the deluge),

a town famous among those of antiquity for its canals and

temples, for its aérial gardens and sumptuous palaces.

“Let us figure to ourselves a superficies ten times greaterthan the precincts o

f Paris, an extension of ground greater

than all the department of the Seine, surrounded by a wall ofeighty feet thickness by three hundred in height, and we shallhave a

n idea of

what Babylon was.”Situated between the Oxus and the Indus on one side, and

the Pontus Euxinus and Euphrates on the other, the town of

Nimrod was for a long time lady and queen of

Central Asia; its

political and religious influence extended from the East to theWest, and from the capital to the semi-mythological empire

of Chaldea, whose indeterminable and shifting limits compre

hended Persia, part of India, and perhaps the territories of

Armenia. The sovereign of this empire had founded the firstgreat town o

f

the world, and from the example of

the constructors o

f Babel, adorned it with gigantic edifices and indestruc

tible walls. He was, moreover, the first conqueror, and hisempire, established by main strength, certainly dates from theexpulsion of

the descendants of

Shem and the violent predominance of the sons of Ham.

Nimrod, son of Chus, and first hero of a family whose prin

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 27 I

cipal empire was Egypt, founded, moreover, Ezek, Akad, andCalneh, towns of which now exist but vestiges. At a little distance from Larsa, at the foot of a hill, there appears an irregular

precinct which measures some seven kilometers in circumference. In it

,

among numerous rivulets, skeletons of

edifices

stand in confusion, some of

which reach the height of thirty

feet. Other works, rude and primitive in design, similar to thelower floors o

f Babel, are the ruins of Warker — called Erek

or Orek by the Scriptures. At his death, Nimrod left behind

him immense fame. Arab traditions assert that in his pride hewished to ascend to heaven on the wings of an eagle, and thenomads o

f

the desert even now pronounce his name with respect.

Deified by the people of his ancient kingdom, which they calledBel Nipru, and made god o

f

the chase, he occupied a place

among the constellations of Arab astronomy with the name of

El Tabbar, the giant.

To Nimrod succeeded his son Erechus, who it is relatedintroduced idolatry into the world. Destroying the primitive

notion of Divinity, he exalted its

attributes and powers, admitting a

t

the same time the errors and chimeras of

the sacerdotalclass, the individuals o

f

which had observed the stars from the

summit of

the pyramid and recommended them to the veneration o

f

mankind. It was Erechus who conferred upon his fatherdivine honors, and applied to him the name o

f

Bel or Baal,

under which cognomen the sun was probably invocated. BelChamos and Bel-Fegor succeeded Erechus and received in

a similar manner the popular apotheosis. In union with Baalwere divinities highly venerated by the people o

f

Chaldea andAssyria, and his cult extended itself from the center of imperialpower to the confines o

f

the territory.

Uruk, who gave himself the title of King of Ur and of Akad,was another o

f

the successors of Nimrod, and erected monu

ments on the same scale of grandeur which characterized those

of

the founder of

the dynasty. Simple and primitive in style,

they were formed by superimposed layers of brick; that of

Bovarik in Warka is one of these. The traveler contemplateswith admiration that mass in whose texture it has been computed some thirty millions of bricks were employed.

272 THE SPHINX.

Analagous temples and edifices, according to all

appearances,

were raised during the same reign in Ur, in Calneh, and in

Larsa, all correctly orientated with their angles regarding thefour cardinal points. The temple of Warka was dedicated to

Beltis; to Beltis and Belen those of Calneh; and that of

Larsa

to San-Si. That of Ur, which observed great analogy with

Babel, was probably an edifice of

three stories, the two first

formed by solid masses of brick, serving as pedestal to a salon

or sanctuary. There are preserved still a notable arch and vari

ous sepulchres in which have been found vases, lamps, arms andother metallic utensils.

From the inscriptions which are able to be deciphered onsome o

f

the bricks, it is gathered that Uruk, King of Ur and of

the land of Akad, received from the god Sol, or

the goddess

Luna, the inspiration for building the temples.

From the year 2690 in which they fix the reign of Nimrod,

the learned authors of

Arte de verificar las fechas (Art of veri

fying dates), to the year 2047 in which Elgi died, son of Uruk,

the Babylonian or

Chaldean dynasty flourished; by invasion or

conquest thence succeeded what is known as the dynasty of

the Medes. According to the authors this success was of great

importance, since that it signalized the commencement of

thepredominance o

f

the Japhetic race, and the expelling or sub

jecting that of Ham; and also in its being the point of inception

and first step of

the religious element, of

which in future times

Zoroaster was a prototype.

The new dispensation endured four hundred years in Chaldea,

the reigning sovereign bearing the title of Ohedor-Laomer, who

at

the return of

the triumphant expedition which threatened theterritory of Palestine and Syria, was defeated by Abraham.Until the finish o

f

this epoch it might be remarked thatChaldean knowledge was extensive, notwithstanding the irregularities of the time.

The fundamental dogmas have only been able to be collected

in an incomplete fashion and most times erroneously, since thereligious books of

the Chaldeans have been lost and have not

descended to us. If anything is known of

them at

all it is

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 273

but by fragments and references, of disputable authenticity, andalthough appertaining to the epoch in which they had beenreceived, yet deeply altered by the effect of the Arab conquest,

and more still by the predominance of the Assyrian empire.

Some writers have professed to see a reflection or vague repro

duction of their tenets in the Zoroastrian religion. We shallexpound in the following pages what we know of the Chaldeansystem.

Arabia inundated the country with its

tribes as it inundated

Egypt, and the pacific people of Babylonia experienced all

kinds of calamities. The famous and cruel Add-Schems sallied

out from the Arab frontiers like a destroying storm; in hisimpetuous career he dispersed princes and people a

s the hurricane disperses the sand o

f

the desert. His victorious hordesproclaimed him Saha (leader of captives), since h

e impressed

them by thousands before him; the terrified nations acknowledged him a

s lord and master, and the Chaldeans veneratedhim a

sa god. Zohak, Mardo-Centes or Mardo-Kempad, as

they called him, prince of

the two serpents, and great propagator o

f idolatry, had after his death, altars and adorers,

adjacent to those that were held to be the three ancient Bels

of Babylonia. Nabind or Nebo, one of

his successors, wasequally elevated to the divine category, being adored under

the guise ofa dog's head.

The town had not lost by conquest its political or religious

influence. Babylon was not only the capital of the first empire,

but the queen city of

the primitive Orient, the emporium of

commerce and the arts, and more than all, the religious center o

f Asia. From the remotest times of antiquity, the people

came in pilgrimages to its Temple of the Sun; human lineage

preserved perhaps a confused memory of

the reason and purport o

f

these migrations and peregrinations, yet nevertheless, theemigrated races continued to send pious representatives to salute

and worship the monument which protected their cradle.

The Chaldean priests or

astronomers occupied the higher galleries o

f

the town of Babel, and it is on record that from them

descended the scientific and religious system which replaced

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mere tradition. The Orient has always delighted in melancholy

poetry, which taste appears to have germinated from the hours

that fled by so slowly and calmly in the serene nights of thoseclimes. Let us translate ourselves by the aid of imagination tothe time in which the earth, scarcely free from the waters of theflood, exhaled at the fall of evening the fresh aromas and pene

trating vapors of her bosom: the nomadic families guarding

their flocks heard with secret terror the distant roarings of thesea; but although agitated, they raised their eyes, as by naturalinstinct to the mysterious stars, whose mild and pleasing splendor

seemed to smile upon and animate them from the sky. It wasa natural thing also, to these shepherds who wandered round thewalls of Babel, that the most brilliant star in the celestial army “

should be distinguished by an affectionate name, and afterwardsto have life and intelligence attributed to it as well as theother bodies, which by virtue of Providence move orderly inspace. From this to astrology and the cult of the stars was only

a step, and this step was the measure of revelation of things

buried in oblivion.HEINRICH DAATH.

* Sadaoth, army of the sky, and from which word comes Sašeism, star-religion.

(To be continued.)

THE symbols of the Mongolian calendar are derived from animals, andamong them four of the twelve coincide precisely with the Aztec calendar,

and three are nearly the same; as the difference in the genera of the twohemispheres will permit. Mongols, Mantchoo, Tartars, Japanese, andThibeans describe their years by the mouse, the ox, the leopard (or tiger),

the hare, the crocodile (or dragon), the serpent, the horse, the sheep (orgoat), the ape, the hen, the dog and the hog. Among the Mexican names

for the days we also find the hare, the serpent, the ape and the dog; andinstead of the leopard, crocodile and hen, which were unknown in Mexico at

the time of the Conquest, the panther, lizard and eagle.

— Popular Science Monthly.

HOROSCOPE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 275

Thorogcope of the french Republic.

We read in Genesis that as the patriarch Jacob was traveling

from Bethel, the place of his dream, and the great promise toIsrael, his wife Rachel was taken with the pains of childbirth.

“And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that themidwife said unto her, Fear not: for thou shalt have this son

also. And it came to pass as her soul was in departing, for shedied, that she called his name Ben-oni (the son of my sorrow):

but his father called him Benjamin (the son of my right hand).”It was in circumstances of similar but even greater sorrowthat France, the Rachel of nations, just after the crowning

disaster of Sedan, gave birth to the present Republic, whichthough at first truly Ben-oni, the child of sorrow, has so far

shown an unexpected vitality, and if not a brilliant figure externally, is at least a Benjamin to the enemies of it

s

own house

hold. Curiously enough the true figure of the heavens for that

illustrious birth has never before been published, although theexact information upon which we have calculated the same has

been published and accessible to all

the world for more than

thirteen years. The passage occurs in an account of

the fall of

the second Empire and the history of the Commune in Paris,

published by the U.S. ex-Minister Washburne in the first num

ber of

Scribner for January, 1887.

At precisely four o'clock and forty-five minutes in the afternoon, as I

marked it by the great clock in the tower of

the Hotel de Ville, at one of thewindows appeared Gambetta: a little behind him stood Jules Favre and

Emanuel Arago: and then and there on that historic spot I heard Gambettaproclaim the Republic o

f

France.

This sufficiently precise description was accompanied and

accented by a picture representing Gambetta standing in a window, addressing the assembled crowd; and yet from that day to

this no astrologer (and the present writer gave the information

to a famous one as an interesting actuality more than fifteen

months ago) has ever yet published the correct horoscope of

276 the SPHINX.

so interesting a problem not merely to the occultist, but to thatlarger world which dwells in a twilight unlighted and unwarmedby the genial light of the ancient wisdom.The present writer cannot be accused of any lack of sympathy and admiration for the nobler side of the French charac

ter: he lived for nearly two years in that beautiful country; heis nearly as familiar with it

s language as with his own; its litera

ture forms quite a third of

his large library: he regards them

as with the glorious Italy of the Renaissance, quite the most

artistic people of

modern times, and the most civilized in thedignity o

f living of

the common people. No manners are so

charming to him as those of

the average Frenchman, and thischarm of manner — the inherent attribute o

f Leo— is universally diffused, and permeates every social grade: the Frenchcommon people especially the peasantry, having in many essentials the manners, a happy blend of self-confident ease and grace

ful urbanity, that one finds only among the aristocracies of other

lands: he hopes therefore that he will not be suspected of anyGallophobia when he declares that though it has redeemingfeatures, this is in the main a very unfortunate, unmoral, violent

and potentially catastrophic horoscope | If it came to him

indeed as that of

an individual he would unhesitatingly pronounce it that of an epileptoid, liable to convulsions, maniacal

and homicidal furies, brain disease, deficient in the religious and

moral sense, but with considerable artistic faculty and personal

fascination, especially to the opposite sex. In this connection,and remember the exact time o

f birth is exceptionally attested,

there is a curious significance in Charubel's symbol for the

28th degree of Capricorn:-“28w8 —An indescribable scene:

chaos, confusion, dissolving views. Denotes one who is born

with some very marked defect of intellect, or

he may become

insane after he has passed childhood. This degree gives weakintellect, generally idiocy.”

This suggests some biograph ofa stormy sitting of

the FrenchChamber: that the Republic has weathered so many storms

and avoided so many hidden rocks, with so terrible an

affliction

of

the Ascendant degree is indeed a puzzle, and that it will in

HOROSCOPE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 277

the not distant future be violently submerged and replaced by

some other form of government, more socialistic probably,

seems certain: for no unprejudiced observer can conceive itbeing replaced by any of the more or less ignoble forms ofreaction that are pitted against it

. As Charles II. said to hisbrother James when advised to be more careful of his person:

“No one will assassinate me to make you king !”

The symbolism ofa figure of

this importance is simply inexhaustible; we will, however, analyze a few of the more salientpoints. Capricorn rises, the tenth sign o

f

the zodiac, and

natural symbol of government and authority. The ruling

planet is therefore Saturn, who is in the fiery Sagittarius in

the eleventh in opposition to Jupiter in his detriment Gemini.Saturn has the trine o

f Venus in the seventh angle, and of

Neptune in the second house (finances), but the latter planet

is heavily afflicted by being in square to the Ascendant and to

Uranus and Mars in the seventh. This severe affliction of the

Ascendant or

most important point in the horoscope has alreadyproduced and will again, a crowd of misfortunes — violent andunscrupulous enemies, assassinations o

f

the heads of

the state,

anarchy, social feuds and revolts, foreign exactions, loss of

colonies, heavy and constantly increasing expenditure upon

armaments, scandals military and financial, gigantic frauds,

Panama bubbles, and finally we fear a violent cataclysm which

will diminish the prestige and vitality, phenomenal as we know

that to be, of France. Venus (ruling the fourth or end of life)strong and well aspected in the seventh, her own house (Libra),has in a great measure overruled these evil tendencies, and willagain we hope, but with all the great planets so weak o

r

so

malignant, it is open to considerable doubt.The deadly hostility of the Roman Catholic Church is shown

by

Mars ruling the ninth (religion, colonies) in conjunction

with Uranus. This also promised disputes with foreign countries, especially naval powers about colonial expeditions, resulting in loss o

f prestige as at Fashoda; also the heavy loss of

life by malarial fever and otherwise at Madagascar and Tonquin.

The opposition of

Saturn to Jupiter in the fifth shows that the

278 THE SPHINX.

Republic aggravated the religious quarrel — for it did not beginit— by persecuting the clerical party, and forbidding the pres

ence of the word Dieu in any book (even Lafontaine's fables!)used in the national schools, and even about four years ago

passing a vote of censure on a school inspector for settingquestions implying the existence of such a superfluity as aSupreme Being ! Such progress have we made from Voltaire,

the apostle of Revolution who declared that if Dieu did notexist it would be expedient to invent Him in the interests of

social morality. Thus does authority set an example of irrever

ence to the common people (governed by the Moon), who,

with the tidal influence of the sea — the dykes being undermined — at storm periods rise and submerge for a time all lawand order.

The result of this rigid secularizing of all education has been

as M. Cornely, the well-known writer of the Figaro has pointedout, the production of a quite phenomenal crop of youthful criminals, thieves, anarchists and murderers. “There areworthless young men everywhere, but sorry as I am to say it

,

it strikes me that nowhere is there a class at the same time soyoung and so thoroughly depraved and hopeless a

s is found

in Paris . . . young men who will commit murder as readily

as eat their dinner, if murder means a small money gain.” This

class of young malefactor is also symbolized by Mercury, the

natural significator of youth, who rules the fifth (children) here

being heavily afflicted in the evil eighth or Scorpio house by

the square of

the Moon (the common people) in her detrimentCapricorn in the twelfth o

r

house of sorrow, restraint, treachery,

prisons, asylums, etc. This malefic Mercury also describes thedisgraceful side o

f French journalism, at

once venal, violent,

unscrupulous, scurrilous and mendacious, which the same acute

observer has very justly stigmatized as a national disgrace, and

the shame and sorrow of

all honorable Frenchmen.

The correspondences of

this opposition of

the ruling planet

Saturn to Jupiter are almost numberless: it symbolizes an “aristocracy” probably the most worthless in the world, the truedescendants o

f

the cruel and profligate feudalism which pro

HOROSCOPE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 279

duced the French Revolution: the “sons of the crusaders ” who

showed their chivalry at the great fire at the Charity Bazar,by brutally pushing aside and trampling on women in theirmad terror: and again at the races at Auteuil assaulted in theirprivate enclosure, in the presence of foreign ambassadors, awhite-haired old man seated between two ladies, the head of

the State, who was their guest' Truly the “hope of France 1”Non Ragionam di Lor/Again this aspect with it

s myriad facets foreshadowed the

severance of

the connection, dating for nearly a century past, of

France with lower Egypt, ruled by Gemini. First she resigned

the responsibility ofa dual authority, and then later, having by

a long “policy of pinpricks" goaded John Bull to an angry

determination to make no more “graceful concessions,” quietlycollapsed, and evacuated Fashoda in a month, the new Moon

of

which fell on the exact place of

the ruling planet here, Saturn

in Sagittarius, the sign that symbolizes expeditions and foreign

countries. Saturn, moreover, by transit was squaring the radicalSun whose sign Leo rules France, and Mars retrograded in Leo

on

the very day (astronomical) on

which Marchand left thatpreviously obscure spot. This malign aspect indeed symbolizesnearly every greater evil that has befallen France in the thirtyyears since it was formed, the Panama and Wilson scandals, anever increasing national expenditure, especially on colonial enterprises that never pay, with a decreasing population; a civilauthority constantly threatened by masterful and unscrupulousmilitarism, that itself breaks out in Voulet Chanoine mutinies

in foreign lands: the hatred of the Jews carried almost to a

St. Bartholomew, and culminating in the shocking miscarriage

of justice at

the famous court-martial of

Rennes.Having now with perhaps the superfluous vigor of destructivecriticism, o

r

an advocatus diaboli contesting some candidate for

the honors of sainthood, analyzed the defective side of

the horoscope, let u

s

see what can be said in its praise. First the Sun

which by its sign Leo rules France, is in trine aspect to the

Moon: this gives vitality and a good constitution notwithstanding the organic affliction of

the head or

Ascendant: it also gives

28O THE SPHINX.

popularity, the love of the common people, of whose interests

it has always been studious. It will indeed never collapsethrough their ill-will, but more probably by some military coup

d'etat or some ill-advised foreign war. The next good sign isthe double trine of Venus from her Libra house to Saturn in

the eleventh or Aquarius, and Neptune in the second or Taurushouse. Now Russia is reputed to be ruled by Taurus andAquarius: this triple aspect is therefore very favorable to thepermanency of this otherwise singular partnership between the

most advanced government in Europe and the most reactionary.

This beautiful aspect also symbolizes the extraordinary fascination, which no folly or crime seems able to destroy, of this Siren

of the nations, and the high artistic productiveness (Venus inLeo) in which France still leads the world.It is impossible to leave this figure without discussing theextremely menacing aspect of two malefic planets from a cardinal and violent sign to the Ascendant. The French should

strain every nerve to subordinate the military authority to thecivil, and they should also beware of provoking any great SeaPower, for Mars here is greatly strengthened for evil by theconjunction of Uranus in the same watery sign. Now no intelligent Frenchman could deny, that a considerable portion of theFrench press— the exceptions can be counted on the fingers ofone hand — has for a long time past attacked everything English, in a spirit that can only be regarded as an incitement to warat the first favorable opportunity, and this notwithstanding thefact that we are perfectly friendly to them, and buy their goods

to the average value of I IOO million francs per annum, or morethan a

ll

the rest of

the world put together. Nobody in England wants to fight the French; they are more popular herethan the Germans, who are said to be so much nearer to us in

blood. At Sedan we did not go into hysterics of joy, on thecontrary we were sincerely sorry for “our sweet enemy France,”and made the handsomest contribution to her needs that assur

edly was ever made by one nation to another in distress. But

if they must fight us to let off the steam of an hereditary malice,

they had better not do it with this horoscope, or

France will in

HOROSCOPE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 28 I

all

human and astrologic probability be

shorn of

her colonies,

and be reduced to her true role as the great intellectual andartistic center of the Latin civilization.

Sept. 4,

1870.

4.45 P.M.

Paris.

In making predictions on

so important a horoscope as this,

the present writer feels undeniably nervous. In addition to its

own directions and influences, it should be studied in relation to

future solar entries and new moons at Paris. I will return to thesubject later, but at present give a few hasty impressions. Thisyear, 1900, does not look good especially for the Exhibition

because the progressed Ascendant 22°57' squares the radicalafflicted Jupiter in the fifth (pleasures, etc.). Jupiter is favorable financially for a short time at the end of the year, but otherwise the influences are extremely evil. 1901 is even worse,

especially the months of January, April, and July. In the latter

282 THE SPHINX.

part of the year and early in 1902 the Ascendant squares theprogressed Venus, colonial disputes we fancy, no doubt with per

fide Albion, or a coolness with the cher ami Russia. 1902 Jupiter

is in a measure friendly this year, but Saturn and Uranus bothkeep the pot of worry and disturbance boiling. The end ofDecember, 1903 is evil, also the end of 1905 when Saturn comes

to the Ascendant, and is sure to produce a great crisis with thetransits in force. We would like to predict something morecheerful, but it is really difficult on a horoscope like this whichseems “born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward.” Besides, onthe principle of the “happy nation that has no history,” misfortunes arrest attention and are talked about in a way, that

the happy months and years have a happy knack of avoiding !KYMRY.

“Those wondrous men, who first from farLooked up and saw fates hanging at each star,

In thought dilating did at once compriseTen thousand revolutions of the skies.They marked the influence and knew the power

Of every sign and every fatal hour;

What tempers they bestowed, what fortunes gave,

And who was born a king, who doomed a slave;

How aspects vary, and their change creates,Though little, great variety of fates.What hints, experience did to each impart,They joined, and observation grew to Art.Thus rules were framed; for by example shown,They knew what would be from what had been done.They saw the stars their constant round maintain,

Perform their course, and then return again;

Saw on their aspects destiny attending,

Various, on their variety depending;

And thence they drew unalterable laws,Settling the same effect on the same cause.”

MANILIUs.—Translated by Thomas Creech, 17oo.

A GRUBSTREET ELEGY. 283

A Grub ſtreet ELEG1"On the Supposed Death of

A 24/A27 A2 /GA,ALMANACK"MAKER.

Anno 1708.

ELL, 'tis as Bickerstaff has guessed,Tho' we al

l

took it for a Jest:Partrige is Dead, nay more, he died

E'er he could prove the good Squire ly’d.

Strange, an Astrologer should die,

Without one Wonder in the Sky;Not one o

f

all

his Crony Stars,

To pay their Duty at his Hearse!

No Meteor, no Eclypse appear'd

No Comet with a flaming BeardThe Sun has rose, and gone to Bed,Just as if Partrige were not Dead;Nor hid himself behind the Moon,

To make a dreadful Night at Noon:He a

t fit

Periods walks through Aries,

Howe'er our Earthly Motion varies,

And 'twice a Year he'll cut th’ AFjuator,As if there had been no such Matter

SOME Wits have wondred what AnalogyThere is 'twixt * Cobbling and Astrology;

* Partrige was a Cobler.

284 THE SPHINx.

How Partrige made his Opticks rise,From a Shoe Sole to reach the Skies.

A List the Coblers Temples ties,To keep the Hair out of their Eyes;From whence ’tis plain the DiademThat Princes wear derives from them;

And therefore Crowns are now a-daysAdorn'd with Golden Stars and Rays,

Which plainly shews the near Alliance"Twixt Cobbling and the Planets Science.

BESIDES, that slow-pac'd Sign Bo-otesAs 'tis miscall'd, we know not who 'tis;

But Partrige ended all Disputes,

He knew his Trade, and call'd it Boots.

THE Horned Moon which heretoforeUpon their Shoes the Romans wore,

Whose Wideness kept their Toes from Corns,

And whence we claim our Shooing-Horns,

Shews how the Art of

Cobbling bears

A near Resemblance to the Spheres.

A Scrap of Parchment hung by

Geometry,

A great Refinement in Barometry;Can like the Stars foretel the Weather;And what is Parchment else but Leather?

Which an Astrologer might use,

Either for Almanacks or Shoes.

THUS Partrige, by

his Wit and Parts,At once did practise both these Arts:And as the Boading Owl, (or ratherThe Bat, because her Wings are Leather)Steals from her private Cell b

y Night,

And flies about the Candle-Light;

A GRUBSTREET ELEGY. 285

So Learned Partrige could as wellCreep in the Dark from Leathern Cell,

And in his Fancy fly

as far,

To peep upon a twinkling Star.

BESIDES, he could confound the Spheres,And set the Planets by the Ears:To shew his Skill, he Mars would joinTo Venus in Aspect Mali'n,Then call in Mercury for Aid,And cure the Wounds that Venus made.

GREAT Scholars have in Lucian read,When Philip King o

f

Greece was dead,

His Soul and Spirit did divide,And each Part took a diff'rent Side;

One rose a Star, the other fellBeneath, and mended Shoes in Hell.

THUS Partrige still shines in each Art,The Cobbling and Star-gazing Part,

And is Install'd as good a Star,

As any of

the Caesars are.

TRIUMPHANT Star! some Pity shewOn Coblers Militant below,

Whom roguish Boys in stormy NightsTorment, by puffing out their Lights;

Or thro' a Chink convey their Smoke,Inclos'd Artificers to Choke.

THOU, high-exalted in thy Sphere,May'st follow still thy Calling there.To thee the Bull will lend his Hide,By Phabus newly Tann'd and Dry'd.

For thee they Argo's Hulk will tax,And scrape her pitchy Sides for Wax.

286 The SPhinx.

Then Ariadne kindly lendsHer braided Hair to make thee Ends ;

The Point of Sagittarius DartTurns to an Awl, by heavenly Art;And Vulcan wheedled by his Wife,

Will forge for thee a Paring-Knife.For want of room by Virgo's Side,She’ll strain a Point, and sit *astride

To take thee kindly in between,And then the Signs will be Thirteen.

* Tibi brachia contrahet Ingens Scorpius, &c.

THE EPITAPH.

HERE, Five Foot deep, lies on his Back

A Cobler, Starmonger, and Quack,Who to the Stars in pure Good-will,

Does to his best look upward still.Weep all you Customers that useHis Pills, his Almanacks, or Shoes.

And you that did your Fortunes seek,

Step to his Grave but once a Week,

This Earth which bears his Body’s Print,

1%u'll find has so much Virtue in’t,

That I durst pawn my

Ears, 'twill tellWhat e'er concerns you, full as well

In Physick, Stolen Goods, or Love,

As

he himself, could, when above.

SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 287

$ignatures of the Manetº.

THE SIGNATURE OF THE SUN.

Those born under the influence of the Sun are of medium

stature; they are handsome and well made in the classical type

of beauty, their complexion is citron color, the beard is full andwell set, their hair is long, soft and fine, blonde, often shortwith red or golden hairs: the forehead is prominent and ratherlow than high: their large eyes of which the white is pure andlimped are brilliant, elegant in form, humid and with an expression at once gentle and severe; they are well modeled and

set wide apart; the pupil is brown and the lashes are long andcurved: their cheeks are fleshy and firm, their nose is finely

modeled and straight, and their eyebrows long and arched

follow in a big curve the form of the orbital arch: the mouthis of medium size, and the lips slightly advancing are veryeven; the teeth are well arranged without being too white.

The voice without being strong is agreeable and sonorous, thechin is round and somewhat prominent, the ears are of medium

size and project slightly from the head, and the lobe is fleshy

and colored. The neck is long and muscular, but withoutthe forms of the muscles showing outside; they have no hairon the body; their breast is large and arched outward, but

not excessively so: they are slender, their limbs are long andfinely formed, and their back very arched: the joints of theirlimbs are fine, their thighs are strong and elegantly formed;

and their legs handsome but relatively slender; their walk is at

once gracious and noble.They are inventors, imitators, and perfecters of every operation; they learn spontaneously and without study, especially inthe arts. They will suffer reverses of fortune, but will be

honored among strangers. They are irascible but easily appeased. Although very amiable and sympathetic they havenot the art of attracting faithful friends; they are destinedto suffer in their affections, and with a loving heart they will

288 the SPHINx.

live far from their children or those who are dear to them:

they have many enemies but triumph over them. They areattracted to the occult sciences and excel in them. They arekindly, even tempered, and have much gaiety. They attainperfection in many works and often achieve renown. They

have great pride and self-respect and never encroach; they areeloquent and fascinating; they are easily seduced by beauty ofform, yet they are acute and accurate observers. They lovewalking tours, reverie, poetry and reading: they love gilding,

gold jewelry and are fastidious and original in their dress; they

are religious, but their religion is rather based upon contemplation and adoration than on superstition.

Solar men are sober and often artists, but always amateursand appreciators of Art. They are honorable, moderate butsometimes ambitious, and have a tendency to pride. Theirgreat quality is logic, and a vision which sees things as they

are. Molière was the Sun in literature and Raphael in art:

the one and the other are in the center and take for their guide

that which they idealize in nature.

The figure of the children of the Sun is elegant, evenmajestic. They have delicate sight and are subject to maladiesof the eyes. They are somewhat sensual in their love and arevery susceptible. If they are poets as they often are, theirprincipal aim is to make their name illustrious and honored;

while avoiding direct praise they love to shine like the sun,

but they surround themselves sometimes with clouds. Those

influenced by the Sun have square fingers, the thumb is of

medium length, the second phalange (logic) is long and strong;

the knot of independence— second joint of thumb — is present• but without exaggeration. The mount of the Sun finger (nextthe little one) is cut by a great line traced upwards like a furrow,

and when the solar influence is very strong by three equal lines.

THE SIGNATURE OF THE Moon.

Those born under the influence of the Moon have a round

head, broad above the temples, at the upper side of the head

where the organ of the marvelous is found. The upper part

SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 289

of the forehead where in phrenology causality and comparison

are placed, is not prominent, but the part of the skull which

borders the eyes and marks the perceptive qualities is very

much so. The complexion is white, deadly pale, sometimesslightly tinted with colors. The skin is spotted and the fleshsoft. They are generally big, muscular in appearance, but themuscles are flabby; the body has little hair on it

.

The nose is

short, rather narrow and flat, relatively to the breadth of

the

face. The mouth is small; the lips are strong, prominent andpushing forward; the teeth are large, broad, yellow, often illarranged and defective; the gums mount high and are pale.

The eyes are round, big, clear, prominent, with a pupil of a

grey blue, misty, veiled and as it were swimming in its orbit;

their lids are large and thick; the eyebrows meet, are blonde,

not very apparent and as it were, stumped in.

The chin plump

and deep is retreating; the ears are set close to the head. Thehair is fine, supple, long, blonde and not very thick.

The neck is rather long, white, plump and garnished oftenwith circular folds; the shoulders are large and the sides areoften very developed. The pectoral muscles with the men andthe breasts in the women are flabby and folded; both menand women have exaggerated hips which make them awkward

in their walk. The stomach is prominent; the legs are heavy,

massive and swollen at

the ankles; the joints of the limbs areheavy, and the feet are big and clumsy. As a rule the limbshave a tendency to be puffy and bloated.

Lunar people are changeful, capricious, egotistic; they lovesea voyages because it helps their natural instinct of inconstancy. They are cold, languid, indolent, melancholic, withbut little sex passion. Family life has little attraction for them.They are rather mystical than religious, phlegmatic and consequently slow both in mind and body. Yet their imagination is

very active when it feeds itself on illusions. They have mag

netic intuitions, prophetical dreams, and nearly always presenti

ments. They find themselves in sympathy with Nature, whenthey live in solitude near lakes or

fountains. They love thearts, but the painting must be fantastic or grotesque (like the

29O THE SPHINX.

drawings of Victor Hugo), and the literature romantic. They

often write verses with facility, and have a great aptitude forharmony in music; in general they have much of the complexion of the female sex.

Women influenced by the Moon are devoted; they give

themselves easily, but rather through a lack of resisting power

or through curiosity than out of love. Yet they have one whomthey prefer and love always even when they betray him withoutintending it

.

The men and the women of

this type prefer olderpeople to younger ones, and sometimes even elderly ones.The people o

f

this type among whom navigators are found,

and people whose occupation brings them in contact with thesea, love to b

e

near the sea or lakes; they prefer to bring up

aquatic animals, ducks, Swans and fish. They prosper in hydrau

lic works, and like to live near rivers and torrents. When the

eyes are very big, this type produces babblers.They are uncertain, restless, averse to fighting; they havelittle self-confidence and are consequently unfitted for oratory.They lack perseverance, and are more generous in words than

in deeds. They eat a great deal and are gourmands; they

drink little, pure wine by preference, but they are great beerdrinkers and smoke almost incessantly. They easily alarm

themselves about their health; they are heavy, are not fond of

walking, are easily fatigued, and when walking, rest frequently.

Their chief characteristic is that of the Moon, mobility andinconstancy. They love stumped colors, white o

r yellow. TheChinese are true children o

f

the Moon. Their hands are dimpled

and soft; the first phalange of

the thumb is very short; theirfingers are smooth, short and pointed; in the palm the mount

of

the Moon is very developed. Writers of this type havepointed fingers, sometimes spatulate, but the hands soft.

[To be continued.]

THE Rev. Dr. Chalmers says of

Sir Isaac Newton's doctrine: “Authority

scowled upon it,

taste was disgusted with it and fashion was ashamedof it.”

THE WORSDALE LECTURE. 29 I

Che Crue amo CŞnlp ſº)ethoo of Øelivering 3uðge

ment on flativitieg by ISO3ition.ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTAL PTOLEMY.

LECTURE I.

DELIVERED ABOUT 1820.

As the doctrine concerning the space of life is chief of all, soit ought to engage our most serious attention before the consideration of any other subject, not only in the nativities ofchildren, but in those of adults, and especially the former, when

the time of birth can be depended upon. It is true thatPtolemy's writings in this Celestial Science are intricate and

abstruse as well as concise in the extreme, yet being genuine,

their equal is nowhere to be found. Since his time, hardly anage has passed without producing some men accounted high

in their knowledge of planetary influence; such was Cardan,

Argol, Morinus, etc., who with the good meaning of giving alarger and fuller illustration of each and all of Ptolemy's rules,

or as many as were known to them, have published the same

in their works, which are to be had to this day, but are of littleor no use to the student, as those authors were not fortunate in

understanding the writings of that immortal teacher, but deviated

so much as in every instance to put a wrong construction onthem, from that found in the real Greek manuscript copy, andwhich has never yet been published.Having, therefore, observed that the chief consideration is concerning the span of life, it is requisite in the next place to noticethe manner in which the rules for judging it ought to be applied

in the nativities of children, so that the duration of life may

be determined by position as near as possible. In all

those

cases in which the astral testimonies of

violence are so preva

lent as to denote death in infancy, or

before the age of

fiveyears, or by the arrival of that period, but which is not extended

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any further by position because that is the boundary; deathoccurs by the force of the directions of the Hyleg to the violentrays of the malevolents. In this latter instance, many things

are to be considered: First the genitures of the children'sparents ought to be attended to, when the time of birth can bedepended upon, that the strength or weakness of the respectivesignificators of children may be ascertained from the proper

celestial houses, which are the Tenth and the Eleventh, and

their opposites, the Fourth and Fifth; for when a benevolentplanet is situated in any of these houses, or in amicable config

uration thereto without affliction, the offspring is likely to live,

particularly if the rulers of those places are not within the reachof destructive rays. When, on the contrary, an evil star, such

as Saturn or Mars, happens to be posited in any of the places

mentioned above, the ruler thereof being considerably afflicted,

so as to be entirely void of all proper relief, the children (or

some of

them) are likely to die in infancy. But when the significators o

f

children are strong and well supported in theparents' nativities, it will require a large portion o

fviolence

in the genitures of

the children to cut off life in infancy; andwhen the significators o

f

children are weak and afflicted, it willrequire but little violence in their respective nativities to produce the work o

f mortality.

These things are but secondary, yet they must have their dueattention, although the most particular point to be considered

is the nativities of

the children themselves. In the genitures of

those born by day, the position of

the Sun must be regarded

more than the Moon; because the Sun has more power in destroying life b

y day, when heis under affliction, than the Moon

has, in like condition, although owing to her nearness to the Earth,

in comparison with the other planets the Moon's position andconfiguration with them, must by no means be omitted. When,therefore, the Sun is afflicted by the square or opposition of

the malignant planets, and is not far therefrom in number of

degrees, separating or applying in the zodiac, orin the World,

the child then born will die in infancy, provided also that thedegrees o

f longitude in which the Sun is placed, are more than

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those that are occupying the Oriental Horizon; and that in theMundane way the luminary in question is more than five degrees past the cusp of that house to which he is nearest; and

that neither Jupiter nor Venus are so placed as to lend assist

ance by conjunction, mundane, rapt or zodiacal parallel, orJupiter by square or opposition. As to the sextile ray ofJupiter or Venus, Venus in mundo and Jupiter in both circlesof position, including Jupiter's trine aspect with that luminary,

I have to observe, that but little notice is to be taken of thoseconfigurations, by way of allowing them to preserve life. Thetrine is allowed to render more assistance to the Hyleg thanthe sextile, but there is not much difference in their effects,

when giving judgment by position. The malignancy of thepreceding configurations, or either of them being observable inthe manner described, give evident testimony of death in infancy, and the more certain, provided the dominion of Hylegbelongs to that luminary in the nativity.

There are other configurations besides the square or opposi

tion of Saturn or Mars to the Sun that have power to destroy

life in infancy; viz., their parallels, semi-squares and sesqui

quadrates in mundo and the zodiac; but not unless several ofthem are in operation at the same time by position; then thoseeffects are qualified to produce dissolution, when none of theaforesaid testimonies of relief are found to exist in the figure of

birth. The active virtues are those that Ptolemy has placed in

twelve degrees of Jupiter and eight degrees of Venus, whichis the same as the orbs of those planets, and extend to a certain

number of degrees and not any further, and must be observed

in all cases, for they are of the greatest importance.Again when the sun is conjoined with Saturn or Mars applying or separating, then death in infancy may be predicted, provided he is unassisted by benefic rays, and the event will takeplace independent of the number of degrees occupying theoriental horizon, whether they exceed those of the Sun in longi

tude or not; but in all cases, no little attention must be paid

to the terms of

the benefics, for if the Sun is posited so as to

receive relief from one or

both of them, particularly Jupiter,

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for instance: if the Sun were in the tenth and Jupiter in theninth, or if the Sun were in the eleventh and Jupiter in the midheaven, then in either of these cases, life would be preserved

from the superior force of the terms in question, even though

the sun were afflicted at the same time, by Saturn and Marsapplying to the opposition of the one and conjunction of theother; to which the said terms are the most applicable, eventhough there might be a new or full Moon at the time; yet,

under all these combined testimonies of affliction, the influence

thereof would save life in infancy. Furthermore, in reference

to the terms in question, if the benefic planet is not oriental andnot in the position explained above, the power thereof will beinsufficient to save life. The word “oriental" used above is

considered no more at present than the precedence which theplanet may have with the Sun in the World, throughout all

the diurnal places in the figure, or from East to West, the Sunbeing at a distance of the sign and so on, in advance all the way

of the planet such as the former being in Leo and the latter inCancer.

The next consideration “by position” is the Moon, whichmust not be neglected; and the several configurations also

which she may receive from other planets must be attended to.

It has long been taught that if the birth be precisely on anew or full Moon, it will be sufficient to cause death in infancy,

except the benefic rays of Jupiter or Venus interpose; but thisis not the case, unless other malevolent rays are cast at the time,

nor is the following rule always to be believed; viz.: “If aneclipse impede the light of time in the house of birth, it is asign of death in infancy”; therefore, we reject the two last rulesand consider the following as genuine and one that will bear thetest. With respect to the Moon: if she be posited in either ofthe cadent houses above the Earth and configurated with Saturn

or Mars, by square or opposition, or any other evil ray, chieflyapplying thereto, either in the Zodiac or Mundo, without relieffrom the benefics, the child then born cannot long survive theireffects, but will die in infancy. But if the Moon be so placed

as not to be in a cadent house (a position in which she is of

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all

others the weakest and therefore cannot stand affliction)

then the degrees of

her longitude must be considered with thoseoccupying the ascendant, in a similar manner to what is saidabout the Sun; not omitting to notice whether any assistance

is received by her from the rays of the benefic, which benefic,Jupiter o

r Venus, being unaffected, life will be preserved, notwithstanding the malignancy o

f

those violent configurations

which the Moon may be receiving from Saturn or

Mars.Having thus considered the respective positions of the Luminaries it is absolutely necessary to pay attention to the ascendant, as a vital point, by noticing whether it be also afflicted by

the misfortunes; for if it be and without relief, then the judgment is more certain with regard to death in infancy, which is

sure to be caused by the violence of such a position. I havemoreover to observe, that the station of the Part of Fortune

is to be taken into consideration, as also its “Mundane” con

figurations (if any) with the other stars in the nativity, before

the delivery ofa decided and final judgment be given. The

descendant can only be afflicted by the following aspects, thesemiquartile, quartile, sesquiquadrate, opposition and the conjunction, where they precede from Saturn, Mars, the Sun, theMoon and from Mercury when he is of the nature of the malefics; and so it is in like manner with respect to the Part of

Fortune, and in some instances, when that mundane point is

found in parallel with those planets in the world; viz., when

it is near any of

the four angles, East, South, West and North,

for then the stars become more heating, drying, cooling or

moistening, as they approach these angles. From the cardinal

points of

the world and the zodiac, the stars begin to influence

the four primary qualities; from the most inferior (the fourthHouse) and tropic of Cancer, which is moist, from the eastand Aries, which is hot, from the culminate (M. C.) andTropic of Capricorn, which is dry, and from the west and Libra,

which is cool. But by all these means, the stars, though they

have their nature absolute in themselves, they neverthelessproduce all the four primary qualities, though with a difference

on

account of

the diversity of

the nature of

the stars, but they

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continually increase the qualities they produce, as they advancesuccessfully to the opposite points, by which reason they open

the contrary quality, as they leave those they were in. Fromthis it is inferred that the influx and rays of the stars depend

on real motion and illumination, and in the falling or cadentHouses, are weak; in the succeedant strong; and in the angles

the strongest.

The square and so on, of Saturn or Mars to the Sun or Moonby position in the Zodiac will never have power to kill ininfancy. Suppose the Sun were above the Earth in hisposition, as the proper moderator and was applying to thezodiacal quartile of Saturn. Now, according to the ancientsand moderns, the life of the child would be considered to be injeopardy, during it

s

first stage, as

well as all

those whose paths

might happen on

the same day, in which the Sun would be

the

true Prorogator, or Giver of Life, for he would be afflicted by the

square or Saturn, in the Zodiac, in all of them, when he was in

those proper places which qualify time to assume the legal

dominion of Apheta, and therefore by such rules, the affliction

would injure the life of all those born at those periods which wedaily see contradicted; and why, because the mundane stations

of

the planets Jupiter and Venus, with their assuasive directionsand terms to the Sun, in that circle of position, are not attended

to as they ought to be, when they are found to exist in a

nativity; and no comparison is made between the degrees of

the Zodiac occupying the angle of

the ascendant and thelongitude o

f

the Sun, and so on

in the figure, which, if it

were done, no

error could possibly arise in point of judgment.

This last mentioned rule, which is so important, and is heredefined in the clearest manner, according to Ptolemy, has neveryet been given to the public.

The residue of the rules for judging by position, I shall define

in the following manner: In respect to those nativities thathappen by night, it is absolutely requisite to examine the

situation of

the Moon with the strictest attention, as also theconfigurations which she may receive from the other planets;

for, provided she is found to be

under affliction from Saturn or

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Mars, or both, and at the same time is not helped by the benefics,

it would be wrong to form any other conclusion than that deathwill occur in infancy. The situation of the Sun must also beconsidered in order to discover whether he be under affliction

or not, so that an infallible judgment may be pronounced inall cases. Thus, from what has been written, it will appear

that the position of both the Sun and the Moon must be takeninto consideration, as also their respective configurations with

the other planets, whether the birth be by night or by day;

and with this difference: that the Sun, when he is under

affliction, has more power in destroying life in the diurnalnativity, than the Moon has when she is afflicted and above theearth; but it is to be observed that the power of the Moonis very considerable, either for preserving life or not, as shemay be aspected, propitiously or otherwise.When the Moon is below the hemisphere and the Sun isabove, and particularly if she be found separating from hisopposition at the time of birth, and the Moon be approaching

the evil rays of one of the infortunes without receiving superior

aid from the benefics, then those born under such a position

will not long survive its effects, but will depart this life in the

first stage, or

before the age of

five years. When it so occursthat both the luminaries are under the Earth, they are to be

considered nearly equal in point of influence, there being butlittle difference between them; but what influence there is

,is

attributed to the Moon, whose position and configuration must

be more particularly attended to than that of the Sun and

the aspects he may be receiving from the other planets. TheMoon has more power when she is above the Earth than when

she is in the nocturnal position, especially when the birth happens

to be at night. In that case the luminary in question becomes

a very powerful significator, and as such, it is a matter of the

greatest importance to pay every attention to her, as she is thus

situated and configurated above the hemisphere; for, if she

should be

under affliction from the violent rays of

one or both

of

the infortunes, or

the Sun, and void of all kind of relief,

the child then born cannot live beyond the age of five years,

298 The SPHINX.

according to the rules of Ptolemy; and if the Moon be at thesame time in one of the cadent Houses, it makes the judgment

more certain. The degrees on the ascendant are to be compared with those in which the Moon may be placed in longitude

in the radical figure, and as to the manner of applying them, itis the same as those already given for the “Sun in a diurnalnativity.” This is the method followed in delivering judgmentby position in a nocturnal nativity.

We next investigate the other two vital points, “the Ascendant” and the “Part of Fortune,”— and see whether either ofthem be under affliction or not; for if it should be the case, thejudgment is still more certain, respecting death in infancy, that

is,if one or both of the luminaries or

the other vital points be

afflicted without receiving relief, for it seldom happens that thedeath o

fa child is shown from the evil rays of

the malefics to

the horoscope and the Part of Fortune, without the co-operation

of

other configurations ofa destructive nature being communi

cated to the lights, orto one of

them in the nativity. It must beobserved that it is an important matter, to distinguish whether

the infortunes are so posited as to retain their natural power, or

not, for if it be abated by their being in good aspect to thebenevolents, then the evil configurations which any o

f

the vitalpoints may be receiving from them, o

r

from Saturn or Mars,

are not so likely to cause death in infancy as they would be if

they were in a situation qualifying them to possess their own

evil nature and power without diminution.

There is a great degree of

affliction from the Sun being in

square of

the Moon, she having but little latitude, and whenever that aspect is found to exist in the nativity o

fa child, its

effects are to cut off life in infancy, except the benevolentplanets interpose, so as to mitigate the evil influence o

f

thatsingle testimony o

f

so violent a nature, and it is particularly

so when the Sun is posited above the earth, and is the Giver

of

Life at the same time. But when that configuration and allothers ofa similar afflicting nature cannot be found in thenativity of children, it may be concluded that under such circumstances it cannot possibly happen that they will die in

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infancy. When it appears that death occurs by position, orat the age of five years or before, and when the precise timeor length of life is to be determined on, whether death will be

at five years or earlier, it is not to be expected that the period

of dissolution can be discovered with so much exactness, as it

can be in the nativities of those, whose death is produced from

the effects of evil directions to the Hyleg, which are not somuch to be regarded when delivering judgment by position.What has been written of the different kinds of benefic and

malefic aspects must be constantly attended to in giving judgment, and then everything will prove satisfactory in the scienceof prognostic astronomy.

The vital points as already mentioned, are the Sun, Moon,Ascendant, and Part of Fortune, and if it happens that all ofthem are afflicted at one time in a birth, then the child cannot

live over its infant state, and the same can be said if only someof them are afflicted.

The duration of life is ascertained from the vital points, whichare receiving the most affliction from Saturn or Mars, and theafflicting aspect is more powerful in it

s application than in its

separation in both circles of position. Those stars that areafflicted in Gemini o

r Virgo are particularly obnoxious to life,

in the genitures of

children during their infancy. It is to be

particularly observed, that no

mortal effect can be produced

from the malignant aspect, when the planets forming it are distant from each other more than ten degrees, numbered by subtraction and not by the ordinary mode of calculation. If thevital point from which the duration o

f

life ought to be ascer

tained, be in a position to produce certain dissolution in infancy,

which happens when it is under affliction, and is not receiving

any relief according to the rule given, and when it receives it

in any of

the four Cardinal signs; viz., Aries, Cancer, Libra or

Capricorn, and at the distance of 1°40' it gives in time onemonth o

r

thereabouts for the period of dissolution; 3°20' gives

two months; 5° gives four months; 6°40' gives six months;

8°20' gives eight months; and 10° gives ten months. If it

receives it in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius, 1°40' gives

3OO The SPhinx.

in time ten months; 3°20' gives eleven months; 5° gives oneyear and three months; 6°40' gives two years; 8°20' gives threeyears; Io" gives four years and six months. If in Gemini orSagittarius 5° gives two years and six months; 6°40' gives

three years and three months; 8°20' gives four years and onemonth; 10° gives five years. If in Virgo or Pisces 1°40' givesfive months; 3°20' gives six months; 5° gives eight months;

6°40' gives one year; 8°20' gives one year and six months;

Io° gives two years and two months. If these things beattended to in a proper manner as directed, it may be ascertained whether dissolution will be in infancy, and if so, at whattime it will come to pass, and whether at five years or before.

JoHN WoRSDALE.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH well says: “The stars are instruments of fargreater use, than to give an obscure light, and for men to gaze on after sunset”; and he quotes Plotinus as affirming that they “are significant, but notefficient”; and also Augustine as saying, “God rules the bodies below by

those above.” But best of all is this which another writer has expressed:

“A wise man assisteth the work of the stars as the husbandman helpeththe nature of the soil.”

THOREAU.

WHEN a certain astronomer who was present, asked the Lord Jesus,

whether he had studied astronomy?

The Lord Jesus replied, and told him the number of the spheres andheavenly bodies, as also their triangular, square, and sextile aspect; theirprogression and retrograde motion; their size and several prognostications;

and other things, which the reason of man had never discovered.

—From the Apochryphal Bible, 1st Gospel of the Infancy,Chap. xxi., v. 9, Io.

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF CAPRICORN. 3OI

Che Character ano ſfortuneg of Capricorn.

Those born under Capricorn, according to the old astrologers,

are the cause of their own fortune which they know how to

increase. Capricorn gives those born under it destructivetastes, an active life, a vigorous body in a night horoscope

(sunset to rise), but by day Capricorn can give physical defectsor accidents. It renders one apt for great things and sometimes gives eloquence, though with a certain impediment in thepronunciation. It gives a warlike, aggressive, enthusiastic,fanatical disposition, and yet inclines to melancholy and parsimony. The disposition is fine, just, skillful in business andversatile. The will is firm but liable to change in it

s ambition,

but succeeds nevertheless. There is a love of music, but the

nature is not otherwise artistic. This sign gives a certainroughness in the manner, brusque abrupt gestures; they areslow to anger and to be reconciled, and remember any slight

or injury though without seeking to revenge themselves. They

have great prudence and undertake nothing except on mature

deliberation after weighing the pros and cons. The Capricorn

native is agile and adroit, and has very good sight. This signgives inconstancy in the affections, either active o

r passive.

Fortune will come rather through the personal merit and skill

of

the native, than by heritage or legacy. The brothers and

sisters, who may be numerous, are more likely to injure than to

benefit. There will be many short journeys and some will becaused by enemies. The father o

f

the native will be a violentcharacter and may b

e

an obstacle to the marriage; the family

also will be rather unfriendly. The native will run great danger

in early youth either by wounds or by a serious illness. Capri

corn is not prolific; any children will injure the position or

vice

versa. Great struggles are indicated, mysterious ones either

incurred ona journey, or

at

the hands of people who travel

much, or

of persons attached to some religious cult, the sign

which presides over the position (Libra) shows a great change

3O2 the SPHINX.

in life and outrages by relations about the forty-second year.

The inherent maladies of Capricorn are rheumatism, gout andpains in the joints, especially of the hands and arms; also somedisorders of the stomach. Contusions and bruises, shocks orfalls are also to be feared, also a tendency to hypochondria.

The serious question of marriage which plays so great a role inlife is here very complex — Cancer presides over it and is parexcellence the symbol of mobility and change — so the nativewill be subject to great alterations for good or evil, and may

marry more than once. Capricorn is bad for long journeys andcan make them dangerous, either by great troubles or by illnesses and serious wounds. Among the friends there will beJudases, and a reversal of position is to be feared through oneof them; nevertheless there will be influential friends in thearmy and navy. The enemies will be of two kinds, of high andlow degree. The brothers and sisters or at least one of themwill certainly injure the native, but in general the enmitieswithout being actually innocuous, will be easily overcome orwill wear themselves out. Capricorn gives a lymphatic nervous or lymphatic bilious temperament according to the climate.Being the tenth house sign it symbolizes rule, authority, dominion. It governs the Hebrew race who in their qualities anddefects well express it

s

nature. On its higher side it symbolizes

Duty.

Every sign has 30 degrees, each decan or

IO degrees of

which has a subinfluence of

another (or the same) planet:—

I. Ruled by Jupiter. Unlucky voyages, changes of fortune,ups and downs, great sorrows in love. A masterful ambitiousmind but often beset with doubts, narrow sympathies, sectarian

or

fanatical zeal, though a fatalist, superstitious and apprehensive, h

eis pushed forward by an ambitious spirit. Relatives

are helpful and the reverse, some secret evil threatens the lifeand reputation. There are strong religious and idealistictendencies.

II. Ruled by Mars. Warlike aptitudes, chimerical projects,inordinate desires and passions, enormous self-assertion, ambition

and enthusiasm. High military honors are possible, but dan

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF CAPRICORN. 3O3

ger of a downfall. Numerous and powerful friends; unless controlled, the nature can be cruel and despotic; many rivals, butwith prudence and moderation high honors and fame are certain. The keynote of the decan is conquest at any cost!III. Ruled by the Sun. Manliness, wisdom, sobriety, integrity and honor. A proud, cold, austere nature, wanting insympathy and grace. Unfortunate with children and speculations; a melancholy and suspicious nature; sometimes there is

an early death; and the struggle of life is hard because thenative is self-centred.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Capricorn risingat their birth. By sending your date and hour of birth (which isimperative) and fifty cents, we will send you the number of THE SPHINxwhich contains the description of your rising sign.— ED.

FIx thine admiring eyes on the magnifick seat and palace of the Sun;consider at the same time the true and equal forms, dimensions, distances,

and mutual intersections of the ambient orbs, without the smallest blur orblot in a

ll

the eternal frame. Then tell me thy opinion, whether thou canst

not calculate nativities, erect all manner of

schemes, make almanacs, tellbelieving men their future fortunes, appoint the eclipses o

f

the sun andmoon, set Venus and Mercury together by the ears, o

r

stir up

furious Mars

to make a hurly-burly in the heavens and elements; or, if thou canst notwheedle the sowre surmudgeon Saturn into a soft obliging humor; o

r

fret

the noble Jupiter to madness by a damned conjunction with his mortalenemy; and a thousand more astrological enterprises.

THE TURKISH SPY.

TAKE any one of

what are called popular errors or superstitions, and on

looking at it thoroughly we shall be sure to discover in it a firm, underlying

stratum of

truth. There may be

more than we suspected of folly and of

fancy; but when these are stripped off there remains quite enough of

thatstuff, unyielding material which belongs not to persons o

r periods, but is

common to all ages, to puzzle the learned and silence the scoffer.

RUTTER.

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Cbe £13trologer's U)abe (Decum.

CHAPTER I.— RULES FOR RECTIFYING A NATIVITY.

The first step in calculating Directions is to rectify the timeof birth to the exact second, in order that the Arcs of Directionmay measure up as nearly as possible to the date of the events,

for clocks are rarely exactly right, and parents give the birthvery often at an even hour or half hour, though it occurred fiveor ten minutes earlier or later. Besides, solar time and mean

time agree but four times in a year. I shall therefore first givethe rules, which are of my own construction, and then proceedwith the work:

I. When the hour of birth is not known, you must judgefrom the general make-up of the native, what sign was ascending at the time of birth. This may be quite hard for one whois not very familiar with the descriptions which the signs andplanets produce, but is quite easy for one who has practicedAstrology for a time. In regard to this, I advise those whohave had little practice to consider well before forming a

decided opinion. Remember not to jump at conclusions,

because one is described by Leo, for he or she is not necessarily born with that sign ascending.

2. Aries ascending with Mars in Taurus will describe onesomewhat like Libra ascending with Venus in Pisces. Leoascending with the Sun in Capricorn will describe one of middleheight, slender, with light hair and many of the Leo traits ofcharacter.

3. When the hour is known, make a horoscope for theapproximate time of birth.4. Find the Arc of the event as follows: From the year,month and day of month, subtract the data of birth; the remain

der will be the Arc of time. Convert this into degrees andminutes by allowing one year for a degree, one month for fiveminutes and six days for one minute.

THE ASTROLOGER's vade MECUM. 3O5

5. Find the Right Ascension of the planet by which to rectify. Always work from the upper meridian except when anopposition to it is required, then bring the lower meridian to aconjunction of the planet.

6. To a Conjunction. If the planet is east of the uppermeridian or west of the lower meridian, the meridian must be

moved zodiacal direction direct and you will subtract the arc of

event from the Right Ascension of the planet and the remainderwill be the rectified R. A. of the meridian.

7. But if the planet is west of the upper meridian or eastof the lower meridian, the meridian must be moved zodiacal

converse, and you will add the arc of Event to the R. A. of theplanet, and the sum will be the rectified R. A. of the meridian.Having found the rectified R. A. of the meridian by either ofthe foregoing rules, the longitude of the cusp of the Ioth housemay be found as follows:8. In the tables of R. A. in the first column, which has nolatitude, find the R. A. next smaller than the given R. A.; moveyour finger to the left to the column of longitude and take thefigure or figures found there for the degree of longitude: Atthe head of the column will be the sign of the zodiac, and take

the sign that says: “with north latitude.” Write this sign, andon the left write the figure or figures of longitude thus found.Then subtract the degrees and minutes of the R. A. that arenext smaller than the given R. A. from the next degree below;

the answer in minutes will be the first term of a problem inProportion, 60 will be the second term; subtract the minutesof the next smaller R. A. already found from the given R. A.and the remainder will be the third term. The answer of this

problem can be found by proportion or in the Tables ofProportionals in CHANEY’s PRIMER of ASTRoloGY; this answerwill be the minutes of longitude to be written on the right of

the sign already found, when the degree or degrees, with thesign and minutes, will be the longitude of the cusp of the Iothhouse, if working from the upper meridian; if working fromthe lower meridian, it will be the longitude of the cusp of the4th house.

306 THE SPHINX.

9. To a Sextile, Quartile or Trine. If the planet is east ofthe meridian and the M. C. is to be moved zodiacal direction

direct, add the Arc of the Event to the aspect; that is,

to 60,

90 or

120 degrees, as the case may be, and subtract the sum

from the R.

A. of the planet; the remainder will be rectified R.A. of the M. C

.But when the planet is east o

f

the meridian

and the meridian is to be moved zodiacal converse, subtract

the Arc of Event from the degrees of the aspect and add theremainder to the R

. A. of the planet; the answer will be therectified R

. A. of the M. C., which must be converted in bothcases o

f

this rule into longitude for the cusp of

the Ioth house,

by rule 9.

Io. If the planet is west of the meridian and the M. C.is to

be moved zodiacal direction direct, subtract the Arc of Eventfrom the degrees o

f

the aspect and add the remainder to the

R.

A. of the planet; the sum will be the rectified R. A. of

the M. C.

But when the planet is west of the meridian and theM. C

.

is to be moved zodiacal converse, add the Arc of theEvent to the degrees of the aspect and add this sum to the R

.

A. of the planet; the answer will be the rectified R. A. of the

M. C., which must be converted, in both cases of

this rule, intolongitude for the cusp of the IOth house by rule 8.

N. B.-Remember that the circle of the zodiac, like all circles, contains just 360 degrees, and that when you are to subtract, according to the foregoing rules, you must always go

forward in the zodiac for the minuend, the same as when finding

M. D.; when you cannot subtract, borrow the circle. Also,

when you have added, if the sum exceeds 360 degrees, reject

the circle; that is,

subtract 360 from it.

Catharine H. Thompson was born in London, England, AprilIo, 1858, at 6.50 A.M., the lady wrote me, and added: “Myfather was one of

those particular Englishmen who would insiston entering the hour and minute in the family Bible. Hehad eight children, and the minute of birth of

each was so

recorded.”

THE ASTROLOGER's VADE MECUM. 307

No doubt her father was exact in noting the time by hiswatch, which he felt sure was right, and yet some corrections

are always necessary in rectifying, which will show a discrepancy. These discrepancies will be noted later in the work.The data of birth given is therefore considered as the approx

imate time, and the first step will be to make a Horoscope forthat time, and then determine from inspection the planet andaspect which will come nearest to measuring to the arc of theevent. The lady gave me a list of events as follows:

Mother died Dec. 29, 1863.

Brother died Aug. 16, 1874.Father died Oct. 1 1, 1877.Lady married Feb. 28, 1880."

The death of the mother was the earliest and the most

important event in this lady's life, and therefore the best from

which to work. The tenth house is the house of the mother,

and we must discover an evil planet whose arc will measure,by evil aspect, to the culmination with the cusp of the Iothhouse. But first we will find the arc of the date of the mother's

death; or in other words, the exact age of Catharine when shelost her mother.

1863 Dec. 29 = Date of mother's death.1858 Apr. IO = Date of Catharine's birth. Subtract.5 8 19 = 5 years, 8 months, 19 days.5°43’ = Arc of mother's death.

The rule for converting time into arc is:

I year = 1° 1 month = 5’ 6 days = I'

So I say: 5 years = 5°; 8 months = 40' and 19 days = 3',

added to the 40' make 43'. This rule was adopted by Com.Morrison of the English Royal Navy, late in life. He was thebest o

f

modern Astrologers, and practiced the science more

than sixty years.

We must now make a horoscope for the time of birth givenby the father, which is called the “approximate time.” Unless

*The hour and minute of these dates are not important.

308 THE SPhinx.

the data of birth can be given within an hour or so of the truetime, it is useless to ask an Astrologer to rectify it

,

for he musthave a starting-point that is nearly correct o

r

his labor will be

in vain. There are more than a dozen different rectifications

that can be

made in the twenty-four hours, according to what

time gives the starting-point.

HoRoscope of CATHARINE H. Thompson.

1858, April 10,

}

Data Sidereal time at Noon, 1.13.42.

At 6.50 A.M.

-

Time before Noon, 5.1o.o.o.12.oo M., Noonmark. Time past Noon, o.o.o.o.o.5.1o No. o

f

Hours. Sidereal time at Birth, 20.03.42.

On inspecting the Horoscope made for the approximate time,

we see ata glance that the difference in longitude betweenSaturn, the most evil o

f

all

the planets, on

the cusp of

the 4th

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 3O9

house, and the arc of the mother's death is not great, and that

Saturn to a conjunction of that cusp will be an opposition tothe cusp of the house of the mother. But in consequence ofthe obliquity of the ecliptic, the space must not be measuredby longitude, but by R. A. [right ascension], the measureemployed by a

ll

astronomers. We therefore find Saturn'sR. A. as follows:

Lat. O N. 15 21° of

ga

in O’N. Lat. = 1 12.43Long. 2 I g

å

43 43' of

gF

in O’N. Lat. = O.46

R. A. I 13.3 I 15' of N.

Lat. in 21° gå = o.o.2

The R.

A. of 2 I gå43 in O N. I 5 Lat. = 1 13.3 I

Saturn's R.

A.

being 1 13°31', it is evident from the rule forconverting longitude into R

.

A. and arc into time, that the

R.

A. of the arc of the mother's death 5°43', must be added

to Saturn's R.

A. for the R. A. of the lower meridian, so thatthe conjunction o

f

Saturn with the meridian will occur whenCatharine is just 5 years, 8 months and 1

9 days old. Hence,

I 13°31' + 5°43’ = 119°14'. Turning to the Tables of

R.

A.

I look in the column headed o° for a R. A. next smaller than

I 19 14'; it is I 19°4'. Looking up to the heading I see thesign is ga, and in the column a

t

the left is 27. But there are stillIo' of R

.

A. to be converted into longitude. At this point in

the Table it will be observed that 57' of R.

A.

make 60' of

longitude. Therefore, say: If 57' of R.

A.

make 60' of longi

tude, how many minutes of longitude will 10' of R.

A.

make?Answer, I I'

,

because it is more than ten and one-half minutes,

and we work with the nearest minute. This I 1' will be placed

at

the right of the 27° previously found and we have 27 ga II as

the rectified longitude of

the cusp of

the 4th house or

lowermeridian, and o

f

course the cusp of

the upper meridian will bejust 180° more, o

r

27V3 II; also the R. A. of Ioth house will

be

180° more than the 4th : I 19°14'-H 180° = 299° 14′ = R. A.of M. C.

The next step is to find what Sidereal time will give 27 V3 II

on the cusp of

the Midheaven. We have the arc, 299.14, whichmust be

divided by 15, because the circle is 360° and this

3 IO the Sphinx.

divided by 24, the number of hours in a day, gives a quotient

of 15. Therefore 15° of longitude are equal to one hour oftime.

ExAMPLE.

I5)299. I4

19h. 56m. 56s.

I say: 15 is contained in 29 once and 14 over; in 149 it iscontained 9 times and 14 over; as 4 minutes of time make 1°

of arc, I multiply the 14° over by 4 = 56'. Then 15 is contained in 14 of arc no times and 14 over, which I multiply by4 and get 56 seconds. Therefore, the Sidereal Time at herbirth was 19h. 56m. 56s. less 47s. of Sidereal Time hereafterexplained. The Ephemeris on her birthday gives Sidereal Timeas Ih. I 3m. 42s., which is annual Sidereal Time at noon. But

the approximate time of birth is 5h. Iom. before noon, during

which Sidereal Time would gain 47", and therefore the 47"must be subtracted in order to have the exact Sidereal Time

at birth: 19h. 56m. 56s.— 47s.= 19h. 56m. 9s. Having foundSidereal Time at her birth we must deduce from it the exact

moment of birth. The Sidereal Time given in the Ephemeris

is annual Sidereal Time, and the 47" which I subtracted isdiurnal Sidereal Time. Write Sidereal Time at noon; leavespace for a line of figures; draw a line, and beneath it writeSidereal Time at birth, thus:

Sidereal Time at noon = 1.h. 13m. 42s.

Sidereal Time at birth = 19h. 56m. 9s.

A number must now be found to fill the blank line, and thisnumber, when added to or subtracted from the I. 13. 42 willmake 19. 56.09. The rule is: If the birth is A.M., subtract thelower from the upper, borrowing 24 hours (when needed tomake the subtraction), and the remainder will be the numberto insert in the space, and that is what I do. But if the birthis P.M., subtract the upper from the lower. In this case the

THE ASTROLOGER’s VADE MECUM. 3 II

remainder is 5h. 17m. 33s. showing that the birth occurred 5h.17m. 33s. before noon. Therefore 5. I7.33 must be subtractedfrom noon, or 12 hours, which leaves 6.42. 27, showing thatthe true, or rectified time of birth, was 8 minutes and 33 seconds

earlier than approximate time.But there is still another rectification to make. We have

many kinds of time; viz., Solar, Mean, Sidereal, and of lateyears Standard Time. Our calculations must al

l

be

based on

Solar Time, for all others are artificial and therefore must berectified to Solar Time.

The earth's orbit is not a circle, but an ellipse, with the Sun

in one of

the foci. The consequence is that the radius vector

moves over equal spaces in equal times, causing the Sun'sapparent movement; that is

,

its daily increase in longitude to

be faster in winter, or

more than I* a day, than in summer,

when it is less than 1° a day. Therefore astronomers invented

a “mean Sun” to move at the same speed all the time, which

is sometimes faster and sometimes slower than the real Sun,

and clock time always agrees with mean time, and hence people

say “the Sun is fast,” or “the Sun is slow.” In the large cities

of

the United States Standard Time is kept, which may befaster or slower than mean time, and should be rectifiedaccordingly.

At Catharine's birth mean time was about 2 minutes fasterthan Solar Time, so if her father's watch was exactly with meantime, 2 minutes must b

e

deducted from the 6.50, leaving the

discrepancy 6m. 33s. instead of

8m. 33s. But probably thewatch was 6m. 33S. fast.

W. H. CHANEY.

The Sphinx was a representation of the signs Leo and Virgo joinedtogether, in commemoration o

f

the inundation of

the Nile, which occurswhen the Sun is in those signs. The Egyptians had always a sort of

astronomical mystic reverence for the three signs of

the zodiac, Cancer,

Leo and Virgo. – Identity of the Druidical and Hebrew Religions.

312 THE SPHINX.

(Ibe Elmerican (5rammar of £13trology.

CHAPTER XIII. CONTINUED.— DESCRIPTIONS OF PERSONS BORNwitH PLANETS IN EITHER OF THE Twelve SIGNS.

SAGITTARIUS OR PISCES ON THE ASCENDANT witH

%upiter in Aries.Middle stature, not stout, having a quick and penetratingeye, high nose, oval face with a peculiar redness on it;disposition free, noble and generous, obliging and polite,

especially to friends.

jupiter in Taurus.Middle stature, with a stout, well-set body, not handsome,curling brown hair, dark complexion, frequently the skinis shining or oily; a reasonably good disposition, withSound judgment, charitable, compassionate and attracted

to the opposite sex.

%upiter in Gemini.Well-made, compact body, above the middle height, ratherdark brown hair, full expressive eyes; graceful, affable,courteous, mild, obliging, good-natured, fond of learning,

and an admirer of the opposite sex.

Jupiter in Cancer.Middle stature with a pale, sickly complexion, oval face,

dark brown hair; stout and badly proportioned body; busy,

loquacious, conceited, interferes with other people's concerns; fond of the opposite sex, and of the water, whereonhe is usually fortunate.

Jupiter in Leo.Tall, strong, well-proportioned, handsome person, withlight brown, curling hair, ruddy complexion, full and fieryeye; noble-minded, courageous, magnanimous, proud andambitious; full of daring and enterprise, and a terror tohis enemies.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 3I 3

%upiter in Virgo.

Rather full stature, handsome and well-built, with brown or

black hair, ruddy complexion; choleric and fond of boasting; studious, covetous, meets with serious losses, but noteasily imposed upon.

Jupiter in Libra.Rather tall, handsome and slender body, with a pleasing, ovalface, clear complexion, full eye, and light brown hair; mild,winning, obliging and much esteemed; fond of exercise.

%upiter in Scorpio.

Middle stature, stout and compact; dark, coarse hair, fullface, dull complexion; ambitious to rule over others, proud,resolute, bad-natured, selfish; subtle, crafty, and should bewarily dealt with.

Jupiter in Sagittarius.Tall, upright, well-made body with an oval face, handsometeeth, ruddy complexion, chestnut-colored hair (the hairfalls off early in life over the temples), a handsome eye

and expressive face; just and noble, accomplished, courteous, humane, agreeable; and fond of horses.

jupiter in Capricorn.Small stature, pale complexion, thin face and beard, smallhead, dark brown hair; ingenious, peevish, inactive, helpless.

%upiter in Aquarius.

Middle stature, rather stout, well-set, with brown hair and

a clear complexion; cheerful, obliging, well conducted,

just, good-natured, industrious, economical and scientific.

%upiter in Pisces.Middle stature, rather plump with a dark complexion andlight brown hair; talented, possessing excellent acquirements; friendly, kind, social and fond of the water.

ARIES OR ScoRPIO ON THE ASCENDANT witH

Mars in Aries.

Middle stature, well-set, large bones, swarthy complexion,

reddish curling hair, stern expression; bold, confident,

3I4 The SPHINx.

proud, hasty, fond of disputes and fights and often gains

thereby.

Mars in Taurus.

Well-set middle stature, dark complexion and coarse darkhair, broad face, large mouth, often a mark on the face;

quarrelsome, treacherous, and too fond of pleasure.

Mars in Gemini.Tall, well-proportioned person with dark brown hair anda sanguine complexion; restless, unfortunate in mostthings, ingenious, living poorly, always moving about andleaving bills unpaid; having to exercise his wits for alivelihood.

Mars in Cancer.

Short figure with an ugly body, bad complexion, brownhair and not much of it; bad temper, mean, servile, unfortunate and generally employed in some low business

because incapable of anything better.

Mars in Leo.Tall, well-proportioned body, light brown hair, oval face,

sunburnt complexion, large eyes, stout limbs; brisk, cheerful, brave, given to boasting, and ready for war at anytime; dresses well, is fond of sports and the opposite sex.

Mars in Virgo.Middle-sized, well-made, well-proportioned body, dark

brown hair and dark complexion, some mark on the face;

hasty, proud, revengeful, conceited, remembers an injury,

is hard to please, and is generally unfortunate in all thathe undertakes.

Mars in Libra.

Rather tall person with an oval face, sanguine complexion,

soft light brown hair; brisk, cheerful, conceited, fond ofboasting and of the opposite sex, and by them belovedand often ruined.

Mars in Scorpio.Well-set, rather stout, middle stature, dark complexion,

black curling hair, broad face; unsociable, rash, revenge

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 3 I 5

ful, ungrateful, quarrelsome and wicked, but possessing agood genius and ready wit.

Mars in Sagittarius.Tall, well-proportioned, well-made body, sanguine complexion, oval face, quick, penetrating eye; cheerful, jovial,hasty, passionate, high-minded, courageous, loquacious,

fond of applause and possessing a good disposition.

Mars in Capricorn.Small stature, thin body and face, small head, with thin

black hair, sallow complexion; ingenious, witty, shrewd,penetrating and fortunate.

Mars in Aquarius.Tall, rather corpulent body, fair complexion, sandy hair;

rash, fond of argument and generally unfortunate.

Mars in Pisces.

Rather short, stout person, with a bad complexion, light

brown hair; stupid, deceitful, idle, worthless, and notfriendly to anyone, though fond of the opposite sex.

(To be continued.)

It is in itself strange and incredible that the relations of the heavenlybodies to each other at a given moment of time, perhaps half a century

ago, should have anything to do with my success or misfortune in anyundertaking of today. But what right have I to say it cannot be so *Can I bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands ofOrion? I do not know by what mighty magic the planets roll in theirfluid paths, confined to circles as unchanging as if they were rings ofsteel, nor why the great wave of ocean follows in a sleepless round upon

the skirts of moonlight; nor can I say from any certain knowledgethat the phases of the heavenly bodies, or even the falling of the leavesof the forest, or the manner in which the sands lie upon the seashore,

may not be

knit up by

invisible threads with the web of

human destiny.DR. Holmes.

316 The SPHINx.

16irtboag Information amb Dailp Bibvicefor 3une.

Babies can't choose their own horoscopes, and indeed ifthey could, there might be an inconvenient rush of babiesat particular epochs. “Romola.”— GEORGE ELIOT.

1. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). It is unfavorable for changes,new matters, finance and favors. Look sharp in everythingand attend closely to your duties.Your anniversary cannot be considered a favorable one, andthere will be much that will occur as the year is passing tobring annoyances not unmixed with misfortune. Avoid a

ll

changes of importance, look to friendships, and be guarded in

writing, agreements and finance.

2. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). It is an active and rather

favorable day. You can journey, remove, ask favors, seekemployment and force matters.

Your coming year will be an active one, and on the wholefavorable. New matters will appear and additions to youraffairs. Accept al

l

reasonable chances, though be guardedabout accidents. Look out for fire and avoid law and controversy.

3. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). It is somewhat favorable.

Rest.

Your coming year is not an important one, and your affairswill pass along a

s usual. Some sickness is indicated, and thoseadvanced in years should look to their health. The mind will

be easy and some comforting influences will abound.

4.

MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is not over good today.

It is better for quiet affairs than for moving about. Beguarded

in finance and friends.

Your anniversary will prove a troublesome one for you, and

as the year advances, much will occur to bring misfortune.

Look well to social and home affairs, to expenses, and beguarded in pleasures. The mind will be disturbed, and unfavorable changes are indicated.

5. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). It is rather favorable today.Attend to matters delayed, visit, seek amusement, and use yourjudgment.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JUNE. 317

Your anniversary is somewhat favorable, and with close atterſtion to your affairs, avoiding obligations, the year will balanceon the right side. Some additional social matters are spokenof, with new friends, and favors from the opposite sex.

6. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is an evil day. Looksharp to all matters and attend closely to your affairs. Avoidjourneys and do not visit or change.

Your anniversary is an evil one, and as the year advancesmisfortunes are apt to come. Look well to sickness within yourcircle, to changes, avoiding such, as well as law and contentions.Be guarded in writings, agreements, trust not to strangers, andlook to accidents and theft. You should consult an astrologer.

7. THURSDAY (9upiter's Day). In the main, today is favorable. Be up and doing, closing up old matters and startingnew ones. You can ask favors, approach superiors and seekemployment.

Your anniversary is in the main promising, and your generalconditions should improve. Some favors come from superiors,good friends are indicated, and you will gain through your ownexertions as well. Work up such matters as appeal to yourjudgment.

8. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). It is not over good, but withcare you can journey or change; but you should be cautiousin dealing with superiors, and should avoid pleasures and lookafter home matters.

Your coming year can, with close, hard attention, be made afavorable one. Care is advised in all social and domestic matters, and your pleasures should be few. Look well to yourexpenses, and make as few changes as possible.

9. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). Today promises to beactive and in the main, favorable. You can journey, visit,remove, seek amusements and employment.

There will be good and evil appearing as this year advances,and with great care on your part the former will predominate.Look well to your business affairs, do not oppose superiors,and avoid taking hold of too much. Look to your health aswell.

10. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). It is an unfavorable day,and it is well it is Sunday. Rest.Your anniversary is an unfavorable one, and there will bemuch that will cause anxiety. Trouble from law and disputes,

3.18 THE SPHINX.

as well as in home matters. Be guarded in the promises ofothers, look well to friendships, and avoid all speculations oradditions in any way, and guard against accident, sickness andfire.

I 1. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). Today is somewhatfavorable. Attend to matters that appeal to you. You canseek amusement, employment and favors.

Your coming year promises fairly well, and as it advances itbrings ease in general affairs. Favors from superiors andthrough friends, and gain through your own endeavors. Beguarded in writings, and do not branch out too much.

12. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Today is unfavorable. Avoidchanges, removals and be guarded in social and home mattersand amusements.

Your coming year is not favorable, and great care is advisedin all matters. Unfortunate changes, home disturbances, andsickness is indicated. Remember, “the way of the transgressoris hard.”

13. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is an evil day, sogovern yourself accordingly. -

Your coming year is fraught with evil, and misfortune is aptto come with a heavy hand. Sickness, bereavement, financialand business losses; loss of position, and mental affliction. Behopeful, and trust to a higher power. Thirteen is an unluckynumber

14. THURSDAY (5upiter's Day). It is slightly good, thoughall important matters should be postponed. Guard against accidents and do not travel.

Your coming year will be somewhat active, though far fromfavorable. Troubles through writings and agreements andthrough changes, also from litigation and disputes. Look wellto such, and do not attempt to enlarge your present scope.

15. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). Care is advised in all

affairstoday. Avoid changes, journeys and amusements, and looksharp to home affairs.

Your coming year is not a favorable one, and care is needed.You will be too much given to pleasure and expenses and willsuffer accordingly. Home disputes, sickness, and some possiblenotoriety is indicated, unless great care is observed.

16. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). It is somewhat favorable

in the main. You can change, journey and visit; but do notseek superiors, and avoid outlays.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JUNE. 3 I 9

Your coming year shows some promising matters, though itwill not be without grave anxieties. Favors come from friendsand superiors, and gain through your own endeavors. Lookwell to sickness however, as such is apt to be serious.

17. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). It is a moderately goodday. Rest.

The coming year promises both good and evil, so pay attention to your affairs, avoiding litigation, and keep your expenseswell in hand. It will end favorably.

18. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is an evil day. Keepa sharp lookout on al

l

matters. Attend quietly to your affairsand do not travel.

Your anniversary is an unfavorable one, and much will occur

as the year is passing to worry you. Look sharp to litigation,

guard against fire and theft, keep expenses down, and avoidall changes o

r additions, letting well enough alone. There is

a little sickness.

19. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). It is an excellent day.Hustle all affairs, travel, remove, ask favors, seek superiors andemployment. Start new things and finish up old ones.You are favored this coming year, and with attention it will

bea prosperous one. Do not change or journey, and look to

all additions, noting well all things connected therewith. Much

activity is shown.

20. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is moderately goodtoday, but do not undertake matters of importance, and look

to your finances.Your coming year will be full of anxieties, and considerablemisfortune will occur. There is sickness about you, and badfinancial matters. Do not oppose superiors, and those in

employ should guard well their position.

21. THURSDAY (/upiter's Day). It is an evil day.Remain inactive and attend to duties.

Your coming year will bring many misfortunes, and theheavy hand o

f

hard luck will press upon you. Domestictroubles, business losses and cares, financial reverses withprobable sickness and mental depression. Seek the advice o

f

an astrologer and act upon it.

22. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). It is an excellent day. Beup and doing, journey, remove, ask favors, seek employmentand hustle generally.

32O the SPhinx.

Your coming year promises an improvement over the pastone and as it advances business will increase and favors will be

shown you. Force everything, acting on your judgment insuch matters that may appeal to you, and while enjoying thegood things, occasionally help those not as fortunate.

23. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). You must look sharptoday, but you can visit and seek amusement, but avoid allimportant undertakings.

You have a troublesome year, with many difficulties and setbacks before you. Be guarded in al

l

business affairs, keepingyour expenses well in hand, and look out for sickness.

24. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). Today is unfavorable, so

reSt.

Your coming year is an unfavorable one, and many anxietieswill be in evidence. The greatest care is advised in all affairsespecially in home, social and financial matters. Avoid law,and look sharp to accidents. Guard also against fire and theftand avoid speculation.

25. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is an evil day. Remainquiet, and attend strictly to business.

You have a serious year before you, with many unfavorablematters appearing. Look well to your mental conditions andbe cheerful, looking upon the bright side of things. Rememberhard luck does not always last. Do not change.

26. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). It is somewhat favorable forsocial matters, and you can journey with safety. Look well to

finances however, and take no risks.

Your coming year promises both good and evil, with the lattermore strongly in evidence. Pay strict attention to your financialmatters, avoid costly pleasures and much will be altered. “Asyou sow, so shall you reap."

27. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is somewhat favorable today. Look to your affairs, and use your judgment. Donot quarrel and avoid the water.

Your coming year will be somewhat quiet, inclining towards

an

unfavorable outcome. Be guarded in your pleasures, yourfriendships, and b

e of

few words. Some slight accidental tendencies are indicated.

28. THURSDAY (jupiter's Day). It is somewhat favorabletoday for social affairs, amusements and journeys. Avoid disputes and crowded places.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JUNE. 32 I

Your coming year is a troublesome one, and you should beon your guard in all financial matters. Make no changes oradditions, avoid journeys, and look to writings and promises.There are some social improvements with probable homeadditions.

29. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). It is an excellent day andgood for all purposes. Take advantage of it and work earlyand late.

Your coming year is an excellent one, with favors andimprovements, activity, changes, additions, journeys and matters of social import. Be up and doing and take every advantage, as the time will not always be with you.

30. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). It is not favorable, so beguarded in all affairs.

Your coming year needs close attention, and though it willbe a quiet one, yet disturbances are spoken o

f. Care is needed

in sickness, and in matters ofa contentious nature. Be cheerful.

The above birthday information is for those whose birthdays occur thismonth regardless o

f

the year and the hour. Any one born, for instance, onJune 1

6 will experience during the year some of

the conditions mentioned o

n that day.The daily advice is worth considering and watching, and if followedwill bring quicker and surer results. On evil days always keep still, foreven if you try to push matters you will find eventually they will not amount

to anything.The good or bad fortune o

fa person on any particular day depends

mainly on the particular conditions operating in the nativity, and the red

or

black degrees the Moon is transiting in the speculum.— ED.

“However contrary he

set his heart

To God, he is but working out His will ;

And, at an infinite angle, more or lessObeying his own soul's necessity.

He only hath freewill whose will is fate.”FESTUs.

322 The SPHinx.

H $oliloquy.

“As for the stars,

I never look on them without dismay,Earth has outrun them in our modern mind,

By worlds of odds. Enough for us, it seems,

And our cold calculators, to jot down,

Their revolutions, distances, dimensions;

And the bright laws which stars and spirits rule,

Are all laid out and buried grave on grave.

There is no danger now of knowing aught

Which ought not to be known. No more of thatAnd you, ye planetary sons of light!

From him who hovereth, moth-like, round the sun

To six-mooned Uranus, Light's loftiest round. *Your aspects, dignities, ascendancies,

Your partile, quartiles, and your platic trines,

And all

your heavenly houses and effects,

Shall meet no more devout expounders here.

You too, ye

injured signs, earth's sunny path

Upon her wheeling orbit, all

farewell !

Your exaltations and triplicities,Fiery, airy, and the rest, your falls,

And detriments and governments and gifts,

Are all abolished. Diurnal, cardinal,

Nocturnal, equinoctial, hot or dry,

Earthy, or moist, or feminine, or fixed,

Luxurious, violent, bi-corporate,

Masculine, barren, and commanding, cold,

Fruitful or watery, or what not, now

It matters nothing. The joy of Jupiter,The sun's triplicity and gloriousDay house on high, the moon's dim detriment,

And all

the starry inclusions of

all signs,—

Shall rise, and rule, and pass, and no one know

That there are spirit rulers of all worlds,

Which fraternize with earth, and, tho' unknown,

Hold in the shining voices of the starsCommunion o

n high, ever and everywhere.”FESTUS.

This was written before the discovery of Neptune.— Ed.

EDITORIAL. 323

Eðitorial.

THIS number closes the first year of the publication of THESPHINx. Looking back we feel satisfied with the effort that hasbeen made, and with the appreciation THE SPHINx has receivedfrom those of our readers, who are interested in a subject the

usefulness of which is becoming more and more understood.

It has proved an interesting work, and the seed that has beensown has travelled far and wide, and has taken deep root.

THE SPHINx will ever remain as a monument to that profoundlearning which, in the long course of ages, has been preserved

and handed down to us from the “immortal" Ptolemy.

The new year commences with July, and starts our thirdvolume, which will be equally as good if not better than thepreceding ones.

We thank those artists who have been our regular contributors, and desire to say how much satisfaction has been

expressed with the clever translations from the works of Ely

Star and Desbarolles, donated by Kymry, together with

numerous other manuscripts from him, sent for the benefit ofour readers.

As THE SPHINX represents an educational work, we feel itought to be placed in a

ll

the public libraries of the UnitedStates. If there are any of our readers who would like to present a copy each month to their city library, we will be pleased

to forward one on application.

In our “Birthday Information and Daily Advice” this month,

we have added after each day, the name of

the Planet that rules

it,

and from which it derives its name. Next month we intendto offer an additional feature of interest to those of our readers

who are interested in the Birthday Forecasts.

We are sending to our subscribers with this number the

index and title-page to bind up with Vol. I.

324 The SPHINX.

fºoted ano Querieg.

The method of calculating a horoscope for South latitude isvery simple. Find the A. R. of the M. C. for the given timeand calculate the cusps of the houses, or take them from a tableof houses for the same latitude North.

Natus

E. B. M.Dec. 19, 1877,

4.47 A.M.

After constructing the figure; to make another for the given

time for South latitude proceed thus: Transpose the secondand twelfth, third and eleventh, fifth and ninth and the sixth

and eighth houses. Number the houses by commencing withthe right-hand angle, which is the ascendant, the next house

below is the second, and so on around the circle. Find theplanets' places from the ephemeris and insert them in the figure,

NOTES AND QUERIES. 325

but remember that the signs read in a reverse order, from theoriginal figure. The calculations throughout are the same asthough the horoscope was for the same latitude North. Thetransposition of the houses as above described (the first and

seventh remain unchanged) transforms a horoscope from Northto South latitude.

Natus *Dec. 19, 1877, ” ;4.47 A.M.

Lat. 33°40'South

If the figure for North latitude is made on thin paper, andthe planets, etc., correctly inserted, by turning the paper overendways, the first and seventh houses serving as the axis,

the reverse side will show the horoscope for South latitude.

The two given horoscopes will make the method plain.

Revolutionary figures are thus calculated. Suppose at agiven birth date the place of the Sun was 2° II 6',

and at

thedate of

the annual revolution the Sun the preceding noon was

326 THE SPhinx.

in 1°58' of the sign II and the next noon is 2°56' of the samesign. Subtract 1°58' from 2°56' and it gives o'57", the movement of the Sun in 24 hours. The Sun has however to moveonly 8 to reach the same place it occupied at birth, as 1°58'from 2°06' leaves 8

'. Then say, by the rule of proportion, as

57' is to 24 hours, so is 8'

to the answer. Multiply 24 by 8 anddivide by 57, which gives 3 hours and 30 minutes, the time forwhich the places of the Moon and planets must be calculated.So far the process is the same no matter where the place o

f

birth may be, and most modern astrologers stop here and insertthe D and planets in the radical figure, using a differently coloredink to distinguish them from the places in the radix.The old astrologers, and Simmonite o

f

more modern times,

calculated a new horoscope for the exact time when the Sunarrived a

t

his place at

birth. If this is to be done allowancemust be made for the difference in time between the place

of

birth and Greenwich. If the above birth had been at SanFrancisco, then 8 hours and 1

0 minutes must have been

deducted from the 3 hours and 30 minutes, because when noon

at

Greenwich it is 8 hours and Io minutes before noon in thelongitude o

f

San Francisco. This would give the time as7

hours and IO minutes, for which the revolutionary figure should

be calculated, and in which the Sun, Moon and planets should

be inserted. Usually there will be very material difference

between the cusps of

the houses in the revolutionary figure

and those of

the radical horoscope. But as stated above, this

method is seldom practiced by latter day astrologers who confine their judgment for the year to the positions the revolutionary stars occupy in the radical figure and the relations they

sustain to the places of

the planets, etc., at

birth. And, in thiscase, it is not at all necessary to go to the trouble to find the

time when the Sun reaches the exact place he occupied at birth.

It is sufficient to calculate the places of the Moon and planetsfor the same time of day to which their places in the horoscope

were calculated.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 327

TLetterø to the Eöitor.

Toronto, CANADA, May 2, 1900.To the Editor of The Sphinx :I send you the first number of The Interpreter, a new monthlyhaving for it

s

aim the popularizing of Astrology asa science

of

soul development. The beautiful SPHINX, the product of

your talent and genius, has been the inspiration for this modesteffort, a

t helping on the cause to which you are rendering suchsplendid service.

A unique feature of The Interpreter is,

that it will be conducted from a somewhat conservative Christian standpoint, andwill thus appeal to a large class of people who are apt to be

prejudiced against Astrology, by its

association with religiousviews o

fa non-christian character. These people may be easily

won to a sympathetic interest in the science, by a proper presentation o

f it from a Christian standpoint, as I have proved

by experience with friends.Yours faithfully,

PHILALETHEs.

LoNDON, ENGLAND, April 22, 1900.

To

the Editor of

The Sphina ;

I cannot as yet say when I shall have time to write an article

for the magazine, but your SPHINx is a most useful publication,and eclipses everything hitherto published in the astrologicalline. With kind regards and best wishes, I am,

Yours faithfully,E. RAPHAEL.

CHARLOTTE, N.

C., May 4, 1900.

To

the Editor of

The Sphinx : -

On page 125 of

the March SPHINx, J. R. F. asks to whom

to apply to learn the date of

birth of

the noted Confederategeneral, Stonewall Jackson. In his life, written by his widow,

328 THE SPHINx.

the date of his birth is given as Jan. 21, 1824, at Clarksburg,

W. Va. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson lives here, but is away visitingfriends, and when she returns I will get the date of theirmarriage.

Respectfully,

J. W. HEATH.

SAN FRANCIsco, CAL., April 19, 1900.To the Editor of The Sphina: ;THE SPHINx is very interesting, and I sincerely hope youwill be able to keep it up, for the world is ripe for astrolog

ical knowledge, and a good magazine is a real disseminator of

its great truths. I hope to see in some future number a true

South Latitude horoscope, also a Solar Revolution computed

for some other place than London, with the method workedout.*

I have struggled hard for the little knowledge I possess.Most text-books are obscure, and they a

ll presuppose a good

mathematical education. I think Astrology should be simpli

fied, and it must be, to reach the masses. With best wishes,Very sincerely yours,

FRANCES PURDON.

*We refer you to “Notes and Queries” in this issue for your answer.— Ed.

THE name for moon in Armenian was Khaldi, which has been considered by some to be the origin o

f

the word Chaldee, as signifying moon

worshippers. . . . With respect to the name of Chaldean, perhaps the

most probable account of

the origin of

the word is,

that it designatesproperly the inhabitants o

f

the ancient capital Ur or Hur-Khaldi being

in the Burbur dialect the exact equivalent of Hur, which was the proper

name of

the moon-god, and Chaldeans being thus either “moon worshippers,” or simply inhabitants of

the town, dedicated to and called

after the moon. . . . Chaldean mythology gives a very decided preference

to the lesser luminary, perhaps because the nights are more pleasant than

the days in hot countries.REv. TIMOTHY HARLEY, Moon Lore.

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[Translated from “La Terre du Sphina,” by Le Sar Peladan.]

THE road to the Pyramids is beautiful, often shaded by trees,

unlike the Egypt of the past, which preferred the rolling Nileto every other highway, and has left us nothing at all like theRoman roads. A green plain stretches before us, a few hamletsand cottages sprinkled with palm trees, are cheerfully scattered

here and there: herons animate pools of water: immediately

facing us three enormous triangles of unequal dimensions withclear-cut lines against the horizon, tower upwards. . . . As onepays one's respects to a Prince, before going over his palace,

in the presence of those prodigies the Pyramids, the Lord ofthe Manor is the Sphinx, and I wished to see him first. Whowould not pause in the presence of this enormity, even moreawe-inspiring to the mind than to the eyes of the body ?After describing the Pyramid of Cheops and it

s neighbors

the writer goes on : The vast cemetery extends to Memphis;

the great Pyramid forms one end of

this metropolis, the most

wonderful ever known : but behold, dominating the melancholy

of

these ruins, the last will and testament of Egyptian art, and

the most beautiful perhaps for its prodigious suggestiveness,

uniting as it does symbolism and art, at once masterpiece and

doctrine.

The Sphinx does not disappoint us: statute or monument,

work of art or symbol, pantacle or chef-d'oeuvre, in whatever

category we place it,it is a thing unrivaled and unsurpassed:

there are other wonders, but there is nothing like it either as

conception or

result.

2 THE SPHINX.

The wings of the headdress, cut and pierced, are like those of

a bat; the ureus which crowned it is broken: there is no longerany nose, the eyes are eaten away, and the chin alone unalteredgives a retreating look to the forehead: in profile the type isNubian. But viewed in front, the curves of the eyes and the

sublime smile of the lips have an indescribable magic! Neitherthe St. John, nor the St. Anne nor the Joconde of Lionardo,

have a more mysterious mouth than this Colossus of five thousand years and fifty-five metres.

The Sphinx must have sprung from the Nile: the formowes nothing to it

s contemporary, the winged Bull of theEuphrates: it is the parent o

f

the Judoeo Phenician Cherubimand o

f

the Greek Chimera. Denon, one of

the first moderns to

describe it,

admires more the perfection of

the work, than itsdimension, and insists on the still and sweet serenity o

f

thisguardian o

f mystery, which zodiacally unites the signs of theLion and the Virgin. In our doubt as to the exact symbolism

of

this wonderful figure, we yet feel that it represents eitherthe archangel o

f mystery, or

the yearning of

the mortal to

become immortal; in the long succession of languages, its

name has always been a synonym of

the unknowable. If Idared to attribute a form to the formless Creative Energy, Iwould recognize in it one of the manifestations of the Elohim.The statues of ancient Egypt whether of pharaoh, priest, o

r

scribe, are not wrought with the perfection of

this Colossus: in

monumental art, for it is more than a statue, this giant whichemerges from it

s

native rock, represents the aesthetic ideal of

Lionardo da Vinci, and expresses also the most ancient, the

most profound, and perhaps the truest of

the world thoughts.

The Hebrews, had they been artists or even men of culture,

would have asked Aaron to make them a Sphinx and not anApis, for certainly humanity in the sense o

f

the Charity of theapostle, is far otherwise expressed in this visage o

f concentrated light, than in the conception ofa terrible Jehovah.The Sphinx has been adopted asa symbol by no religion.Why? The cherubim that stood at the corners of the Ark of

the Covenant were perhaps bulls with human heads 2 Who

THE SPHINX. 3

shall determine the degree of relationship between the Assyrian

bull and the Egyptian sphinx, both alike symbols, the oneactive and the other passive, of the Gnosis.”

THE TEMPLE OF THE SPHINX.

Forty metres from the Sphinx, invisible at first, for the

interior alone has been cleared out, the temple of granite lies

before us, roofless to the sky: this is the most venerable of all

human temples, and the most mysterious both in line and in its

severe simplicity. Its form is that of the Tau, putting aside thedisposition of the sacristy and of appendages inexplicable, inour ignorance of the rites celebrated. A flight of stepsdescends to a corridor twenty-five metres long by two wide,with a moderate-sized cell in alabaster: to the left there is

another staircase.

The flight of steps at the end is the head of the Tau, whichcrosses in a dimension of twenty-five by seven metres. Sixmonoliths measuring a metre bear granite joists. The nave is

seventeen metres by nine; the joists rest upon ten square pillars.

At the southwestern angle of the transept, there is a chapelwith six niches, and in the middle of the transept, a corridoropens of which the walls are four metres thick; it leads toanother transept, narrower, which is terminated on two sides by

square chapels. Never has granite been polished and adjusted

as here; the fitting of these enormous blocks suggests thejeweller rather than the stone-mason. This technical perfection, this conquest of matter, reveals an ardent intention tosay more and other, than what sculpture and painting canexpress, which they did not wish to confide even to the hieroglyphic symbol. -

On these walls which shine like metallic mirrors, nowhere is

there a sign or a form: the right angle, the implacable geomet

ric line, reigns everywhere undisturbed. We are not in thepresence of a tomb or an ordinary temple; the light used tofilter down through oblique openings in the roof: no building

could better convey the idea of a place of initiation, but not to

* The Gnostics were “heretics" who mixed up Christian and Oriental ideas of religion.

4 THE SPHINX.

the little mysteries which fascinate the simple-minded, who

require a more theatrical appeal to the eye. A thing expressesthe opposite of what it is not. One can restore by contrast: atemple without invocation will probably be dedicated to theAbsolute, the God without a name, the Divine Abstraction.

Those masses of granite convey to me the idea, that the ancientEgyptians believed in a one and divine God, before Abrahamthe ancestor of Christians was born in Ur of Chaldea. To besilent, one must be full of speech: silence has never been theexpression of childhood and the young animal, but of old age,

the waning moon of the consciousness. The builders of thegranite temple were old in thought: to have built this abode ofsilence, this wordless affirmation, this formidable symbol of stone.

The Pyramid, a monument of pride, a concession of spiritual

power to temporal, is in no way related. The incomparable

barrenness of these walls reflects the will of really interior men,

having God in themselves, untied by ceremony or symbol, seeking by silent worship carried to the point of ecstacy, a reply toprayers in which the lips move not, the artery pauses, and thebody is at rest, because the soul drawn out, is at one with thecurrent of grace which makes seers and mystics; and to which

one would attribute every good in the world, if good as conceivable to us, were pure enough to suggest the unimaginable

Holy Spirit.

AT the Restoration, Lord Chancellor Hyde, in his speech to theParliament, thus referred to the astrological influences of the time: “TheAstrologers have made us a fair excuse, and I hope, a true one: All themotions of the last twenty years have been unnatural, and have proceeded

from the evil influence of a malignant star. And let us not too muchdespise the influence of the stars. And the same Astrologers assure usthat the malignity of the star is expired, the good genius of this kingdom

is become superior, and hath mastered that malignity; and our own good

stars govern us again; and their influence is so strong, that with our help

they will repair in a year what hath been decaying in twenty. And theyonly should have no excuse from the state who continue this malignity,

and own all the ill that is past to be their own, by continuing it andimproving it for the time to come.”

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 5

El Chapter in Chalocan bigtorp ano lºbílogo.php.

(Continued.)

IN the regularity and admirable harmony of celestial movements, the people of primitive tribes saw the order of the wholeuniverse; and intoned hymns in honor of what they reputed

secondary intelligences, directors of the course of the world,

and intermediates between the earth and the heavens. Although occult phenomena, unaccountable and mysterious, confronted them on every side and introduced apparent confusion,

they lost sight of the supreme intelligence and obstinately

kept their gaze upon the inferior causes, which were supposed

to exert themselves merely to gratify their passions. And so,when, after the terrors of a tempestuous night, Sol reappeared

with his radiant brilliance and incorruptible fire, they salutedwith reverence and love, and proclaimed him king of the sky,

lord and sovereign Bel, and prostrated themselves before his

luminous disc, as in presence of the true God.

In this manner the cult of nature, material and multiple, wassubstituted for God the creator, incorporeal and solitary; and,

once launched, the Chaldeans by superstition and error madefor it a rapid passage.

The elders and priests who ought to have kept strict watchover the preservation of the truth were, on the contrary, not

slow in adopting the error. From the prodigious observatory

of Babel, nevertheless, they contemplated the magnificent arch

of the skies, and while discovering the more prominent laws of

the stars, installed themselves as interpreters of their influence.

If,

notwithstanding, they did not conjecture rightly enough to

establish systems, they had observed and registered with exactitude, the points which impressed them with the greater admiration; such as the periodical appearance and apparent regularity

of

motion among the planets, etc., compiling in this way a large

series of

observations which served them to fix annual periods,

predict eclipses, appearance of comets, and which knowledge at

6 THE SPHINX.

the same time sufficed to distinguish them widely from thevulgar.

It suggested itself to the common people that the priestshad, in some manner, a relation and sympathy with celestialintelligences and that they enjoyed such by especial favor;they were thus held in veneration and even fear, were sep

arated from the great bulk of the commune, and ended by

forming a privileged class, which concentrated in itself all existing knowledge; that is to say, so much as was known by tradition and ancient observations.

In this way was constituted with all its fortunes and dolations,rights and privileges, the sacerdotal class o

f

the Chaldeans and

Aramenes. Its chief was appointed by the King, and thepriesthood itself was divided in sections. The individuals were

thus distinguished: first, astronomers, connoisseurs of

the stars

and symbols; second, conjurors, who charmed and tamed serpents; third, magicians, whose juggling deceived the people;

and finally, the prophets or astrologers. From the sacerdotal

class proceeded, moreover, the sacred minstrels, the annalists,

the physicians, the judges and the ministers; and, surroundedby mystery, the sole depository of al

l

learning, it raised between

itself and the public an insurmountable wall, although birth

and hereditary succession, were not the sole roads that conducted to so desirable a status o

r profession.

This class, then, was one which amid a thousand falsities,

invented by one and another, still preserved some vestiges of

primary tradition.

“If we interrogate these sages, they will tell us that there existed a time in which all was utter darkness and water, water and

darkness which contained monsters of every species: beings with

two heads, the one male and the other female, and men with

two or

four wings.” This was the universe, and a deity by

name Omorka, one of the forms of Chaos, reigned as sovereign

supreme. On a certain day, a genius more powerful than therest, called Bel, cut it in two pieces, from one of

which he

formed the sky and with the other the earth. In this mannerdarkness was eliminated and the division o

f

the elements began

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 7

to take place, converting chaos into order; and as the monstrous animals of erstwhile existence were no longer able tosupport the light, Bel decimated them. He successfully

established the stars and planets, and ultimately, in order topeople the universe which he found deserted, he formed from

the head of Omorka, man— “and this is the cause whichis responsible for their superior intelligence.”

According to another version he did more: he decapitated aninferior god, and mixing the blood with earth, moulded it intomen and animals. Sonas created the world, and Bel was its

material organizer.

With regard to the intellectual legislator or mediator, anothertradition says that the first year of creation, an extraordinary

man, or rather a monster, half man and half fish, came out

of the Eritrean sea and laid the primitive egg of the worldin contiguity to Babylon. During the day, that singular entity

lived among men, but did not eat with them. It instructedthem in many useful crafts, gave them laws, taught them thearts, sciences and letters, how to construct dwellings, to ploughand to cultivate the soil. At sunset he retired to the sea andpassed the night in the water. The monster was called Oannes,

which probably signifies “the stranger.”

Thus commenced the mixing and confusion of the astrologi

cal superstitions of Chaldea, with the religious ideas and cosmogonies of India and Persia. Before this, the Chaldeanreligion purely consisted in the adoration of the attributesof a single divinity and creator, represented by the sun, themoon and the stars, adoration which had not destroyed the

central idea of a supreme God conassociated in a trinity ortriad.

In the premier place of the Chaldean pantheon was repre

sented the God IL or EL, the eternal, the light uncreated: RA,a name which signified in Egyptian, Lord or Master. The great

triad was composed of ANA, BEL or BELO, and HEA or HOA.ANA, equivalent to God in his highest signification was thedivine quality par excellence. According to the inscriptions

he was the Primordial Essence, the first judge, the lord of

8 THE SPHINX.

spirits and demons, king of the lower world and sovereign ofdarkness and death. BEL, called also ENOS, signified lordcreator", and king of earth. He was identified with Nimrod.Finally, HEA was the God of the seaf; the scientific instructor,

the intelligent fish, the god of life, reason and glory, thegenerous divinity to whom mankind was indebted for the mostprecious gifts. He had for emblem the wedge (la cuna)— thebasis of cuneiform writing. “Immediately after Il

,

or

themysterious and universal origin,” says Mr. Lenormant, “there

comes a triad composed of

three principal exterior and visiblemanifestations, a triad which occupied the highest rung o

f

the

divine ladder in the popular mind. Aſia or Anu, the Oannes of

some writers, the primordial chaos and primary materialemanation o

f

the divine will; Bel, the demiurgus, the organizer

of

the world; and Hea or Ao, called also Bin, that is to say, the

god-child or

son of god, the celestial light, the intelligence

which penetrated the universe, directed it and gave it life.These three personifications o

f divinity, equal in power andconsubstantials, were not arranged in equal degree o

f emanation,

but considered on the contrary, as born one from another, Ao

of Oanes, and Bel of Ao.”

To each one of these gods corresponded a goddess, forming

when joined together a feminine triad no

better defined than

the foregoing. They were called Anat, companion of Ana;

Beltes or Mylitta, the great goddess, mother of

the gods,

divinity of Earth and combat queen of fecundity — the lady

of Bel; and Daukima, the consort of Hoa.

There was soon formed another triad consisting of Sin or

Hurki, the moon-god; San or Samsi, the sun-god; and Vul,god o

f

the atmosphere. Sin, the potent, was commander,architect, tutelary o

f

fortifications and edifices; the half moon

was his symbol. San, the brilliant, the god of fire, the light of

the world, the usherer of day, the illuminer of the heavens

and earth, the director and motive power and the guide and

leader of

favorable expeditions: he possessed a radiant disc for*Criador is Spanish. There is a shade of difference between criador and creador, the for

mer implying fecundation.

t.A &ysmos. Hea was not god of

rivers or

fresh water.

A CHAPTER IN CHALDEAN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. 9

symbol. Vul, who was prince of the air, a benefic and prevoyant lord, the protector of canals and irrigation, was symbol

ized by a scintillating ray amid clouds. There were femininecolleagues, companions or condisciples of these gods also: ofSan, Ai Gula or Anunit, goddess of life; of Vul, Shala Talaor Salambo, a species of Venus whose festivals were remarkable for great demonstrations of sorrow, mourning and afflictions; and of Sin, an unknown queen partner. Occupying astill lower place than these triads, we encounter a group of

minor divinities, representing the five planets.

(I.) Nin Bar, or Ninip, who had various points of resemblance to Hoa, as he was a fish god and also ruler of the

sea and guardian of aqueducts. As “light of the gods” heirradiated the nations, and corresponded to the planet Saturn.

He was represented in bas relievos by a man-bull with fourwings.

(2.) Bel-Merodah, the planet Jupiter, was the most ancientamong the gods, as well as the judge and presider over justice,

guardian of gates, and custodian of treasures. He constitutedthe basis of sovereignty and majesty.

(3.) Nergal or Mir-gula, the winged human lion, repre

sented the planet Mars, and was called the hero, King ofbattles, champion of the gods, leader of assaults. He wastutelary of Babylon.

(4.) Ishtar or Nana, a representation of Venus, the exaltedstar, had for symbol a woman. She was the divinity upon

whom man depended for his pleasure, lady of heaven andearth, queen of the gods and goddess of the chase. In someof the rare images of this goddess, which have come down tous, she has in her arms or on her lap a god-child.

(5.) Nebo, or the planet Mercury, was the god of intelligence, versatile in a

ll subjects; it was he who conferred upon

kings the sceptre of rule; he

was known under the names of

seer and prophet. His statue, which was bearded, had bothhands joined in a reflective attitude, while his long, sparingly

folded tunic was covered with inscriptions. This reminds one

* Cp. our Jupiter with the characteristics of P'ul.

I O the SPhinx.

of the Hermes of Greece, or the hieroglyphic columns of theEgyptian Thoth. It may be observed that he possessed theability to engender by himself, or in other words was hermaphrodite."

Upon this religious base, which was affected by grave altera

tions upon experiment, there was little delay in raising a completely material superstructure, an absurd and degrading cult—in which people and priests took equal part.f Yet it must besaid, that among their private measures they preserved the law ofDjemschid, a mythological king of Iramf, which was otherwiseunnoticed, except that Zoroaster took from it the various principles for his system. Perhaps for the sacerdotal class thegreat god El (Bel or Baal), the first god of the highest trinity,continued to be the incorporeal divinity,+solitary and omnipo

tent—the supreme creator of intelligences; but for the vulgar

and even the magnates, they believed first homage was due to

the visible organizer and vivifier of matter: that is,the 'sun,

the celestial fire. In all

parts this body was held asthe true

God; before it magi and shepherds prostrated and adored, and

to it was consecrated the ancient tower of Babel, as a temple

worthy of his dazzling grandeur.

As a first link in this chain which, taking its departure fromthe sun, united the earth with the celestial powers, the planets

were endowed with the charge of governing the world. They

had subaltern stars to execute their orders, each of

which was

in relation with the wisest and most esteemed men; and they

were the priests, who by their talismans, kept themselves in

contact with the secondary divinities. And all these powers, L

sun, moon, planets, stars, talismans and priests, received theworship o

f

the misguided multitude (descarriada muchedumbre).

*The characteristic attributed to the planet at the present day among astrologers.

* It must not be supposed that the translator agrees with the writer in this and many otherpassages.

1 Planted by King Shaddād and now sunk somewhere in the sands of Arabia. , Djemschid'sseven-ringed cup was typical o

f

the seven heavens, seven planets, seven seas, etc., and was a divinng cup. In the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám mention is made thus : –

“Iram indeed is gone with all his RoseAnd Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows.”

[To be continued.]

HEINRICH DAATH.

THE ADVANTAGES OF NoT BEING “SUPERSTITIOUS ’’’ I I

Che Hovantages of ſhot Seing “35upergtitious”

THE Rev. Julian C. Young in his interesting journal, a bookfull of occultism and remarkable coincidences, tells a curious

story; but before leaving the reader to assimilate the moral,

the following extract from a typically superior person, the lateMr. Kinglake, will not be without an ironical appropriateness.

“I think that in England, we are scarcely sufficiently consciousof the great debt we owe to the wise and watchful press whichpresides over the formation of our opinions, and which brings

about this splendid result, namely, that in matters of belief thehumblest of us are lifted up to the level of the most saga

cious (? /), so that really a simple Comet in the Blues is nomore likely to entertain a foolish belief about ghosts or witchcraft, or any other supernatural topic, than the Lord HighChancellor, or the Leader of the House of Commons. How

different is the intellectual regime of Eastern countries' InSyria, and Palestine, and Egypt, you might as well dispute theefficacy of grass or grain, as of Magic. There is no controversy about the matter. The effect of this, the unanimous

belief of an ignorant (?) people upon the mind of a stranger,is extremely curious and well worth noticing. A man comingfresh from Europe, is at first proof against the nonsense with

which he is assailed, but often it happens that after a littlewhile, the social atmosphere in which he lives will begin toinfect him, and if he has been unaccustomed to the cunning offence, by which Reason prepares the means of guarding herself against fallacy, he will yield himself at last to the faith ofthose around him, and this he will do by sympathy, it wouldseem, rather than from conviction. I have been much interested in observing that the mere ‘practical man,’ howeverskillful, and shrewd in his own way, has not the kind of power

that will enable him to resist the gradual impression madeupon his mind, by the common opinion of those whom he sees,

and hears from day to day.”

I 2 THE SPHINX.

This last remark about the influence of the social milieu and

atmosphere upon the mind is very true. Even so wise, learned,imaginative and sincerely religious a man as the late MatthewArnold, was so inoculated by the dogmatism of the materialistic

Darwinism of his period, that he ends the preface to one of hisreligious books by unblushingly asserting that miracles, i.

,

e.,

infractions of

the laws of

nature as known to us

and commonly

observed, “do not and never did happen / " not, mark you,qualified by “in his belief and experience,” but dogmatically,

as an

absolute and historically certain fact, notwithstanding thebelief and unbroken traditions o

f every age and clime, from the

dawn of history to the spiritualistic phenomena, which superior

people refuse to examine in our day. Again, Dean Farrar

once expressed an opinion that the second book of Kings

should be excluded from the Canon of

the Scripture, because

it superabounds in, to him, incredible miracles. The present

writer was induced by this obiter dictum ofa theologic luminary,

to read the same again, and can honestly declare, that, knowing

as he does the phenomena of spiritualism, as attested by such

men as A. R.

Wallace and Crookes, both members of the Royal

Society, and other distinguished men, and corroborated even by

his own experience, he has no difficulty in believing in the

actual truth of

the stories told therein, or in the many similar

miracles recorded in the history of

the Roman Catholic Church,through the ages to our own time. Nor, though he has neveryet seen a ghost o

r

the sea serpent, that favorite object of

journalistic derision, does he consider his own inexperience as

limiting the capacities of nature in any direction.

As to the beneficent influence of

the British press on publicopinion, no person living in this country who has the misfortune to believe in the “ancient Wisdom,” but must have almostdaily experience o

f

the “violence and lack of urbanity,” toooften, alas, carried to boorish rudeness, o

f

the Anglo-Saxon

mind, in face of any unpopular or officially-unrecognized truth.

The late R.

L. Stevenson, in one of his recently-published letters, expressed a very different opinion of

the press to thatquoted above. This exquisite artist thought it vulgar and de

THE ADVANTAGES OF NOT BEING “SUPERSTITIOUS ’’l I 3

grading in every way; an opinion shared in varying degree by

all the distinguished men this present writer has ever heardof, Ruskin, Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Renan, Tolstoi, etc.;

but, though men can delay and injure a great God-given truth,

they cannot permanently suppress or kill it; and Urania, afteran eclipse of two centuries, will re-establish her empire overthe occidental mind and civilization, and then the press willbe her loud-mouthed toady and lackey !

“On the 24th of April, 1854, Sir Robert Peel, accompaniedby his friend Mr. Sansom, was returning from Italy to France.

Sir Robert had originally intended going by land, but wasoverpersuaded by Mr. Sansom and his courier to go to Marseilles by sea, in a vessel called the ‘Ercolano.’ It was apassenger steamboat, and there were several English familieson board. After they had put to sea, Sir Robert, although aman of nerve, was so possessed with the idea of some impending misfortune, that he begged his friend to go to the captain,

and in his name offer him £2OO to put back to Genoa. Mr.Sansom ridiculed the proposition, adding that though the night

was dark and the sea running high, yet there was no danger

of a storm; and that, at all events, they were in no worse predicament than all the women and children on board. These

arguments, though they silenced Sir Robert, did not dispel hisapprehensions; and it was in no very enviable frame of mind

that he got into his carriage he had on board, determined to pass

the night in it alone. At eleven o'clock, Mr. Sansom went tohis carriage window and asked him if he would not go downand have some coffee. Fortunately he declined,” . . . for in a

few minutes the steamboat was violently struck amidships by

another vessel, and sank almost immediately. Sir Robert wasamong the very few who were rescued. “On the 26th he wassufficiently recovered to be able to go to church at Genoa. Itwas the Day of Humiliation; and on the Sunday following, by

a providential coincidence, he had the happiness of returning

thanks for his merciful preservation in the very church in

Geneva which he had been chiefly instrumental in getting

built. With the broad outline of this tragedy the public are

I 4 THE SPHINX.

sufficiently familiar; the details, I suspect, are known to few.What I am about to supplement is known to fewer still.“In the year 1856, and on the 3oth of October, my wife andI were staying in Turin in the Hotel Feder for two or threedays, on our road to the south of Italy. We knew that

there was residing there a very old friend of my wife's family,

Mlle. Sophie de la Pierre, sister I think of the Princess ofMonaco. Mrs. Young being anxious to see her, we called,

found her at home, talked over old Hampton Court friends, andHampton Court days; and among other names that cropped upto the surface were those of the Moores and the MooreHalseys.

“I said, ‘I suppose you heard of the awful calamity whichbefell the poor Halseys?’ ‘Of course,' she replied. “Why, theHalseys on their road to Genoa halted here, purposely with thewish to see me. The instant they arrived they sent me a noteto say that they were dining, after some hours' fatiguing travel,

and that they hoped I would go to them as soon as I could,and take tea with them. I found them in the same hotel inwhich you are, with a charming suite of rooms on the firstfloor. Out of their salon there was a splendid bedroom in whichMr. and Mrs. Halsey slept, and in which they had had a small

tent bed put up, that they might have their little boy nearthem. We had so much to ask of each other and to tell, that

it was twelve o'clock before I got home. But at about tenminutes past eleven, while I was presiding over the tea table, atthe request of my entertainers, we heard a piercing shriek fromthe inner chamber. We ran in, and found the little boy sitting

up in his bed, shivering, crying bitterly, and gasping withterror. It was some time before his mother could pacify him,or learn the cause of his agitation. At last, gaining couragefrom seeing his parents by his side, he told us that he haddreamed that his papa, mamma and himself were all drownedin the salt sea.

“‘His parents were not much disturbed by the incident, as theyattributed it to the child's nervous dread of the coming voyage.

If they had been less matter-of-fact, and a little more supersti

THE ADVANTAGES OF NOT BEING “SUPERSTITIOUS ’’’ I 5

tious, and had accepted their boy's presentiment as an omen,

they might have been alive to this day: for the following night

at the same hour when the boy had had these shadows of coming events cast over his dreams, the child, his parents, and theirservants were swallowed up in the sea.’”

Thus did and ever does the great Mother Nature whisper herwarnings in the ear of the “simple,” and of “babes and sucklings,” but the Scribes and Pharisees, wise in their own conceit,

and sterilized in the mental regions of awe and wonder by whatMr. Kinglake calls the higher teachings of a “wise and watchful" press, rush deliberately to their destruction. It may beobserved that on the 23d of April, 1854, the day preceding thecatastrophe, the moon was in the watery and occult sign Pisces,

in conjunction with Venus exalted and with Neptune the clairvoyant planet strong in the same sign, which beyond a doubtsymbolized the kindly spirit warning given to the unfortunatechild of the superior parents.

But as Schiller said, the Gods even when friendly are power

less to help stupidity. No occultist, no oriental, assuredly noastrologer would ever have neglected such a warning !

KYMRY.

ATTEMPTs have often been made to make it appear that the sentenceof the Roman Inquisition which was passed upon Galileo in 1614 was notreally a denunciation of his scientific views in relation to the SolarSystem. The terms of the censure seem to show unequivocally that theCopernican doctrine was condemned. It ran thus: —“Invoking the most holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that ofhis most glorious Mother Mary ever Virgin, by this Our Definite Sentence,

we say, pronounce and declare: That you, the said Galileo, on account ofthe things proved against you by documentary evidence, and which has

been confessed by you as aforesaid, have rendered yourself to this HolyOffice, vehemently suspected of Heresy — that is

,

of having believed and

held a Doctrine which is False and Contrary to the Sacred and DivineScriptures — to wit, that the Sun is the Centre of

the World and that it

does not move from East to West, and that the Earth is not the Centre of

the Universe.”

I6 THE SPHINX.

Che Character ant ſortuneg of Elquariug.

AQUARIUs bestows on those born under its

influence an aptitude for the arts, and gives success by remarkable works. It

gives a long life, eloquence and power of writing well and social

elevation, according to the starting point. Ptolemy, the classicauthority on the Science, says, that the native will be the cause

in some way or

other of

his own enmities, misfortunes or

exiles.Aquarius gives constancy in the affections, the love nature is

ardent and permanent. It gives a gracious, gentle, simple andhonest disposition, it sometimes gives a certain vehemence in

anger but resentment soon dies. The will is strong, butsometimes unreflecting, and goes straight to it

s goal, striding

over all obstacles. This sign is variable in its social instincts:

at

one time festive, at

another inclined to solitude. Being

patient, laborious and persevering, the natives are fitted forserious studies and management. They are constructive a

sa

rule, and love the good things and honors of

life. The passions

are strong and spontaneous, yet well balanced, the opinions

ardent and permanent. The wealth that the native may acquirewill certainly be unstable, and subject to great losses, occasionedeither by friends and alliances, o

r by hidden enemies of a martial and violent character. There will be property through thefamily, but the latter will injure the position. The position o

r

theprojects o

f

the native, will make him compelled sometimes to takelong voyages; these will not be fortunate, will injure the project

or

the health, and may cause a change of position. Aquarius

gives few brothers or

discord with them, and some violence is to

be feared from them. In a removal or short journey, somephysical injury is indicated; it might be on the water, or by arms,

or quadrupeds, ora fall from a horse, etc. The native's father

runs a risk of financial loss or premature death, either fromdangerous scientific experiments or by the larger animals.

Aquarius sometimes gives twins and danger in childbirth, somedanger to the children in childhood and a liability to wounds.

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF AQUARIUS. 17

The illnesses to which this sign is prone, are those of the stomach

and breast, also violent or neuralgic headaches. The sign

which presides over marriage, the fiery and regal Leo, the only

house and dignity of the Sun, denotes that the native will marryan aristocrat or an artist of some kind. There is however often

disappointment and delay in the love affairs of both these signs,Apollo in mythology, unlike the polygamous Jupiter, beingnotoriously unlucky in love. The position will be liable tochanges upward and downward, but the native will always rise

to the surface again, either by his own energy or by someunexpected help. The friends, apart from the treachery already mentioned, will be helpful and advance the interests

either materially or morally; some of them will be people ofsocial distinction. The enemies will be determined and

malicious, and of two kinds, either hidden or frankly declared;

the native however will not be injured by them, but will injure

himself by impulsive and violent acts, or by ruinous changes of

residence. There will be quarrels with co-workers and partners

on some pretext or other. But Aquarius gives by way ofcompensation, distinction, public esteem and sound judgment.

The temperament is sanguine bilious or sanguine nervous,

according to the climate. This sign symbolises friendship,

all social associations, clubs, etc., hopes and fears. Its mottomay therefore be summed up in the beautiful words, Hope andSympathy.

Every sign has 30 degrees, each decan or IO degrees of

which has a subinfluence of another (or the same) planet: —I. Ruled by Venus. Toil and anxiety, disappointment,delay and loss. Sickness in early childhood. A sympathetic,kindly, artistic nature; a sober and placid temperament andsuccess in foreign lands or in science or literature.

II. Ruled by Mercury. Good intellect, gentleness, morality and good manners. A philosophic, scientific mind withgreat depth and patience, inventive faculty in medicine orhygiene, or in mathematical, astronomic or occult studies. Alover of solitude or of learned society. Fortune comes by

science or art, with slow but sure success.

I 8 THE SPHINX.

III. Ruled by the Moon. Illness in the early years, greatstruggles and disappointments. A melancholy and retired life,changeful, many wanderings, long voyages; attracted to the

occult side of Nature. Women may cause sorrow. There isdanger to the eyes, also peculiar and fantastic fancies andappetites.

The above refers to those persons who have the sign Aquarius rising attheir birth. By sending your date and hour of birth (which is imperative)and fifty cents, we will send you the number of THE SPHINx which contains the description of your rising sign.— ED.

IN his assumption of the Golden Bees as his emblem, Napoleon actedunder an almost prophetic influence. The incident is thus narrated :In 1653, the tomb of Childeric, the father of Clovis, was discovered.In it were found the skeletons of a man, of a horse, and part of that of ayouth. These were concluded to be the remains of Childeric and his horseand page; the custom in France during the barbarous ages, and whenever

a monarch died, being to kill and bury with him his favorite steed and hispage, that they might be in readiness to attend him in the next world.

A gold signet-ring was taken from the finger of the larger skeleton. Ithad engraved upon it a head, with long flowing hair, coming down tothe shoulders. Around it were the words Childerici Regis. Severalbuckles, some massive gold bracelets, and the head of an ox, in gold, andsupposed to be an effigy of the idolatrous worship of the deceased, werealso found in the tomb. On further search there was discovered a purse,

containing above a hundred pieces of gold and two hundred pieces ofsilver, stamped with the heads of different Emperors of France. Also acrystal ball or orb, a girdle; a battle-axe; the handle, mounting, and bladeof a sword; gold tablets and a stylus; the bit and part of the harness of ahorse; a few fragments of a dress or robe; and lastly, more than three

hundred little bees of the purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a redcornelian, or some stone closely resembling it

.

When Napoleon the First was about to assume the imperial purple, theappropriation also o

f

the Charlemagneian emblems was suggested to himby the learned in French heraldry, and those emblems were adopted by

him. The bees of gold were hence sprinkled over the imperial mantle, andthe orb was placed on top of

the sceptre; the latter as emblematical of

universal power, the former of enterprise and activity.

THE WORSDALE LECTURE. I9

Cbe Crue ano Qnlp ſı)etboo of Eelivering 3ubge

ment on ſºlativitieg by Yogition.

ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTAL PTOLEMY.

A MANUSCRIPT LECTURE, DELiverED About 1820, AND PRINTEDFOR THE FIRST TIME.

PART II.

THE judgment concerning violent and remarkable deaths isas follows, which can also be applied in the nativities of adults.

The anaretic places or signs which are called violent are Aries,

Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius, Lira, Gemini, Virgo and Pisces;

when the malefics and luminaries are found in these signs,

without being remarkably well supported or configurated withthe benefics, a violent death is certain and inevitable; or when

the malefics are found in conjunction, square or opposition witheither or both the Lights, then death proceeds chiefly fromthe congress of the malefics, and the quality or greatness ofdeath, from the testimony of the Lights. The kind of death is

known from the aspecting stars, and the signs containing the

malefics. Saturn therefrom Squaring, opposing or in conjunc

tion with the Sun, contrary to condition (which is when he isoriental) and in Fixed signs, viz., Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, andAquarius, death is caused by suffocation, by tumults of thepeople, by hanging or strangling; and in like manner Saturndoth the same, if he be occidental and the Moon follows Saturn

in beastlike signs, viz., Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius, or Capricorn; and in the 12th or 6th houses causeth death by wild or

other beasts, and if Jupiter favors and is infected by the malefics, death will be in public and celebrated places and some

times by condemnation. If Saturn be in the West opposingeither of the luminaries, the native will end his days in prison.

Saturn configurated in an evil manner with Mercury in Earthy

2O THE SPHINX.

signs causeth death by poison, and if Venus be joined to orevilly configurated with them, death will occur by poison andthe treachery of women. The above observation as to lifeending in prison supposes the native to have reached years ofmaturity, but besides this, there are other observations to be

understood as relating wholly to the nativities of grown people.

If Saturn be in Virgo or Pisces, or in moist signs evilly configurated to the Moon, he will cause death by water, by being

suffocated in drowning; if Saturn be found near Aldebaran, byshipwreck; if in tropical or equinoctial signs, he will causedeath by burning or falls, particularly so if Mars be thereinstead of the Sun, and they culminating, then death willhappen by a fall from a high place; thus you see how Saturncauses the above.

The planet Mars in square or opposition to the Sun or Moon

and afflicting them in signs of human form, he causes death byslaughter either by himself or in any other way, and if Venusgive testimony to them in an evil manner it will be by women;

if Mercury be configurated to them evilly, it will happen by

robbers or pirates; if Mars be in mutilate or imperfect signsAries, Taurus, Aquarius or Pisces, or with Sheat Pegasi or CaputArgol, he will induce death by beheading or the amputation ofany part; if Mars be found in Scorpio or in Sagittarius, by burning or contraction; if Mars be in the M. C., or opposite to theM. C., it will be by crucifixion, especially if he be found nearAndromeda; and if Mars be in the West or opposite the horoscope, it is by burning or fire; and in four-footed signs, byfalling and breaking of limbs. If Jupiter be wholly afflictedand gives testimony to Mars, it will be by the anger of Kings orprinces and by condemnation. If the malefics agree togetherand oppose any of the said places, they make the cruelty of

the death the greater, but the quality of death and dominion

will appear near to that planet which is in the anaretic; but

when the rulers of death are in their proper and naturalquality and none of the malefics help, death will happennaturally. Therefore, when Saturn is the cause of death it isby chronic distemper, phthisis, fluxions, agues, spleen diseases,

THE WORSDALE LECTURE. 2 I

dropsies, colic and hysteric distempers; in a word, thosearising from abundance of cold. If Jupiter be the cause, byquincy, inflammation of the lungs, apoplexy, cramps and cardiacafflictions, and sometimes with vehement breathing. Marscauses death by continual fevers, semitertains, sudden strokes

and nephritic afflictions, spitting of blood and hemorrhages, by

abortion and St. Anthony's fire; in a word, that which arises

from an abundance of heat. If Venus be the cause, by affliction of the stomach and liver, ringworms, putrefaction, fistulas

and by poison; in a word, those which proceed from an

abundance of moisture, or through want of wasting thereof.

If Mercury be the cause, by madness, extra melancholy, fallingsickness, coughs, spitting afflictions, or through much drynessor want thereof.

The next subject for consideration is the mind or understanding of the native, judged from the figure of birth, according to the following rules, which are strictly correct. Thequality of the mind and all other faculties of the soul depend

on the position of Mercury, but whatsoever respects the sensesalone, or what is irrational, is considered from the more corporeal state of the Lights, that is

,

the Moon and the stars configurate by separation o

r application. If the places of

theheavens, wherein the mentioned planets are placed, b

e

well

affected and they mutually aspect each other in a favorable

manner, there is then a proportionable conveniency betwixt thenative's soul and the other virtues o

r fortitudes, from whence

an

excellent and strong wit ariseth, but if they are ill-affected

or

are in square or opposition to each other, they produce but

a dull capacity; but by well mixing the significator, a mediversity may be foreseen. First.— If Mercury be stronger thanthe Moon and in signs commanding (and of Long Ascension)Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo; and the Moon be in

obedient signs (and of Short Ascension) Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces, then reason shall principally prevail

over or govern the passions. Second.— If the Moon be stronger

than Mercury, then the afflictions and other inferior faculties doeasily prevail above reason. Third.— The Moon and Mercury

22 THE SPHINx.

in conjunction or any sign (even in Taurus or Sagittarius) makesingenious persons, of a profound wit and an acute understanding.

Fourth.- The Moon and Mercury beholding each other bysextile or trine perform the same, but herein the sextile ispreferred before the trine. Fifth.-The square aspect of theMoon and Mercury generally affords a considerable degree ofwit, not sober and discreet, but of a rugged fancy. Sixth.The Moon and Mercury in opposition in angles, shows a stubbornand turbulent wit, and if either of the planets be in detriment,

it demonstrates a seditious wit, rash, headstrong and rebellious,

treacherous to all and friendly to none. Seventh.-Mercury

in Taurus, retrograde or combust, or in Capricorn in the 12th

house afflicted by the infortunes, even in a small degree, gives

a rude and simple understanding, except the Moon be in goodaspect to Mercury. Eighth.— Mercury in the scientific signAquarius and no way afflicted, but posited in a good house,swift, oriental and with the Moon's fortunate Node, gives a witcapable of anything, and such persons become great inventors.Ninth.-Mercury in either of his own houses gives a goodunderstanding. Tenth.-Mercury received of the Moon by

house or exaltation, shows a most excellent understanding,

and generally the best of wit; particularly so if most of theplanets are in airy signs, viz., Gemini, Libra or Aquarius.Eleventh.-Mercury in Aries with reception by Mars, gives astrong, subtle imagination and a piercing wit, provided neitherof those planets are evilly afflicted at birth. Twelfth.— If theMoon be in conjunction with the North Node, it shows great

wit and ingenuity; such persons are capable of learning any

science to which they may think proper to turn to ; and whenthe Moon is increasing in light and not far from the full, it isthe best.

For the excellency of the understanding, observe the following rules of the planet Mercury. First, when he is under theEarth and in no aspect with any planet, he frames the mindmore for arts; when above the Earth, he incites to oratory.Secondly, when he is very swift in motion, he renders men

inconstant but quick of apprehension, often changing their

THE WORSDALE LECTURE. 23

opinions, but able to give some good reason for them; if he beretrograded or slow in motion he produces a deficiency of intellect. Thirdly, when he is combust or under the sunbeams,

he incites the native to meddle with impertinent matters ormere niceties. Fourthly, when occidental, he is a dissembler

in many things, and when oriental he expresses a more liberalnature. You must also observe. whether the planet which gov

erns the place where Mercury hath great force and energy, indirecting the aforesaid decree, be good, for then he changes

and influences the nature of Mercury for good, and if ill, hemakes him worse in a considerable degree. Fifthly, when heis not at all afflicted and especially by Mars, but is well placed

and in an airy sign, and especially Aquarius, and with theMoon's North Node, he makes the native acute and witty,speaking many languages with ease. Sixthly, Mercury being

in any angle, especially in the ascendant, and in one of his ownhouses, and in any sign but Pisces and Scorpio, he possesseswit, is artistic and fi

t

for any employment. Seventhly, when

Mercury is found on

the cusp of

the ascendant in any airy sign,and, a

t

the same time swift in motion, then the native pos

sesses a good memory and understanding, but he is changeable

and unsteady in his resolutions. When Mercury is with Saturn,

he makes the wit more wary, and the person more constant

and persevering; when Mercury is with Jupiter, more honest,

learned and of good judgment; with Mars, more confident and

presumptuous; with the Sun, ambitious, arrogant and proud;

with Venus, more elegant and lovable; and with the Moon,more unstable and inconstant.

SIGNS OF A CoRRUPT AND SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING.

First.— Mercury peregrine, cadent, combust, slow in motion,

afflicted partially by the infortunes, especially by Mars, gives a

corrupt wit and a dull understanding; and the more Mercury

is afflicted, the more is the wit and fancy impaired. Also, if the

Moon has separated from the body of Mercury as much as

25 degrees, and is in no aspect with him it causes a weak

understanding. Second.— Mercury under the Sun's beams and

24 THE SPHINx.

retrograde, causes such to be very slow in their actions and of adull invention. Third.— Mercury in a watery sign without theaspect of one of the fortunes, usually shows an idiot, or one possessing a very simple understanding, and if afflicted by Saturnin watery signs, the native stutters or hath an impediment

in his speech. Fourth.-Mercury in Gemini and opposition

to Mars, declares an untoward, evil and malicious wit. Fifth.If Saturn and Mercury be with the Sun and they both occidental of him, and in an angle with neither Jupiter nor Venusaspecting them, there will be an impediment in the speech.Sixth.-Mercury under the Sun's beams and in no aspect withJupiter and in a watery sign, the native will speak very little,

or have a defective speech. Seventh.-Mercury combust ofthe Sun's principle in the ascendant, and in a mute or waterysign, either the native is mute or very silent, or hath muchdifficulty in making himself understood. Eighth.-Mercury,lord of the sixth, unfortunate in the ascendant, or in the house

of Saturn, and placed in the eighth, there will be an impedi

ment in his speech. Ninth.-Mercury in the ascendant inopposition to the Moon in the west, will not fail to cause thesame circumstances, provided the benefics do not interposeeffectively by their aspect in preventing the evil. Tenth.The worst stammering is caused, when the lord of the ascendant and the lord of the sign wherein he is exalted, and the

lord of the sign where Mercury is posited, together with theMoon, are all found in mute signs.

John WoRSDALE.[To be continued.]

“BEFORE this century,” says Lamartine, “shall run out, journalism will be thewhole Press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page bypage. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light: instantly conceived,instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth— it will spreadfrom Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with the fervor of soul which made it burstforth — it will be the reign of the human mind in all its plentitude; it will not have

time to ripen, to accumulate in the form ofa book; the book will arrive too late;

the only book possible from day to day is a newspaper.” This prediction is onthe high road to fulfillment.

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points in ſºundane H3trology.

IN looking upon the nations today, and beholding some ofthem gigantic in the zeal and vitality of expanding youth, whileothers are waxing stronger, greater, and more vitalized with theravages of time and warfare, we are led to exclaim: Surely,

they are planted upon the Rock of Ages, beyond the fall ofempires; and in them are no germs of either death or destruction | But, before “the ides of March " who would havebelieved that Caesar could have fallen P or, before the Stars in

their courses began to fight against Sisera, who would havebelieved that that Captain of hosts could so suddenly come tonaught?

In the Book of Lamentations we are told that “the kings ofthe earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have

believed, that the adversary could have entered the gates of

Jerusalem.”But, when her stars went down, although at the zenith of herglory, Jerusalem fell: and, if any reliance is to be placed inAstrology, or in the Scriptural prophecies, then of a truth,

there are nations today at their zenith, which, ere many moons,

must meet their Waterloo.

In Caesar's day the croaking was “Beware the ides ofMarch 1” In our day it is “Beware the Tropic of Capricorn,

for just beyond it Jupiter falls' "

Chief among the nations now waxing great in the vitality ofyouth, and saying to her soul, “Thou hast the potency andpromise of many days,” is the United States of America, concerning whose future and fate, in the approaching fall of stars

and empires we feel deeply interested.

In seeking a configuration for her nativity, our first question

must be: Is she, as generally claimed, ruled by the signGemini, and its planet, Mercury PEras, systems, religions, and nations of great longevity, belonging to the jurisdiction of Mundane Astrology, the funda

26 THE SPHINX.

mental point in their nativity, is the position of Sun and Earthin the precession of the equinoxes: hence, as the vernal equi

nox left Gemini sixty centuries ago, it becomes evident that inMundane Astrology, no nation under six thousand years ofage can be governed by that sign.

The second point of importance is the fixed stars in the configuration: and thirdly, comes their consideration in horary

Astrology; — through which the United States, doubtless, getssome influence from Gemini.

The birth of this nation being an event of so recent date,there is not the least difficulty in fixing her natal sun in thefag end of Pisces, house of Jupiter; and the earth in the fag

end of Virgo, house of Mercury.

Basically considered, the United States is ruled by two signs

and two planets that are rapidly approaching their fall.In the early days of our Mercurial cycle, Great Britain cameto birth under the Gemini Mercury: toward the end of thecycle she brought forth an offspring, in her own Mercurial likeness; but, under the Virgo Mercury, again the mother came in

under the Sagittarius Jupiter, but brought forth her offspring

under the Pisces Jupiter.

Britain came to her nativity under several fixed stars, whichgave her permanence and great longevity: when the UnitedStates came to birth, neither the sun nor the earth was invicinity of any important fixed star; from which circumstancewe must predict for her a short career.That the Americans, especially of the Northern States, are aMercury people, we infer from their propensity to travel, orrun to and fro; from their cosmopolitan amalgamation with allother nationalities; their mercantile and business zeal, financial

prosperity, etc. Their chief characteristic answers the Bibledescription of Mercury characters; thus: — Psalms 73: 12.“They are the ungodly who prosper in the world; they

increase in riches; . . . they have more than heart could

wish for.” . . . Isaiah 46: 11. “Their greed can never haveenough; they all look to their own way, every one for hisgain.”

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A strange feature in this Mercury nation,- which may havecome through a horary connection with Gemini, is that the

two sections of the county, designated as the “North '' and“South" are unlike and divergent in character, yet destiny

holds them together like the Twins, Castor and Pollux.

When these Twins were taking their natal impressions fromVirgo, the North partook dominantly of the Mercury influences,

while the South received her impressions from the Crater or

Crescent just below Virgo, and became subject to the Moon and

her node, the Dragon; — which latter again connects us withGemini in which the Dragon has his exaltation.

The Moon rules, and (since her fall) has desolated Africa:and, under this fallen Moon's malignance the South blackened

herself and civilization with African slavery; under its

influence

she is to this day, persecuting the African race with as much

venom, as the Dragon of Revelation poured upon the womanand her seed.

Another notable influence the Moon's node has had upon

this nation, is to split it into many states under the hydra

headed motto of “e pluribus unum.”

The Mohammedans,— whose ensign is the Crescent, whose

trail has been marked with blood and fury, whose dominionspreads o'er Africa, and whose characteristics are a facsimile

of

those of

the southern United States, are also under thisMoon-node influence.

As all Africa is ruled by the Moon, of course the Boerrepublics come under it

s

influence. If they were astrologically wise, they would not attempt to establish a nation underfalling signs and planets, but would wait a few moons and give

it a nativity under rising astrals, a new moon and Saturnian

times rolled round again.

With the last two days of A.D. 1900 the Node, or Dragon

creeps into Scorpio, the sign in which the Moon has her fall,

and with which, in the early days of

this 6000 year cycle,

occurred the Fall of Man. The Dragon will be

in Scorpio

something over one and a half years, during which time thesigns. Pisces and Virgo, and the planets Jupiter and Mercury

28 THE SPHINX.

will have their fall. In about seven years hence, the Node willreach Cancer, the house of the Moon, when we may look for anastrologic wonder in heaven; for in front of the Dragon will beNeptune in Cancer, and in his rear will be Michael in Leo; and,

if Revelation 12:7 is ever to have a significance, it will surely

be about A.D. 1907–8.In devising her Coat-of-Arms, the United States inspirationally and very appropriately chose the Eagle, bird of Jove, which

in the constellations, hovers o'er the Tropic of Capricorn.

This king of birds, as part and parcel of Jupiter, has had along career, and in the end of which, the U. S. A. has come tobirth:-and, as a repetition prophecy of Jupiter's end when theearth enters the Lion, we give the following extracts from 2dEsdras XI: 5 v. “And lo, the Eagle reigned upon earth, andover them that dwelt therein. And I saw that all things underheaven were subject unto her. 37 v. And I beheld, as it werea roaring Lion which said unto the Eagle, Thou hast hadpower over the world with great fearfulness, and much wickedoppression. 44 v. The Highest hath looked upon the proudtimes, and behold they are ended. And therefore appear nomore thou Eagle . . . that the earth may be refreshed, being

delivered from thy violence.”

We cannot pass this Eagle by, without connecting it in arather curious manner with the nativity of Ireland, for, at the

heart of this bird is a star called Tara-Zed or end of Tara; and

above it is the Harp. Just here the Milky Way dividing, formsan apparent island on which stands a Bull (John Bull.)If the earth, at Ireland's nativity, were near the meridian ofTara, Altair, etc., she must be at least several hundred years

older than Britain, and influenced by Saturn more than Jupiter.

Her stars are directly over the astrologic “Gate of the gods."

In closing we will give a momentary glance at the probablenativity of France; or, as the capital is the vital part of thenation, we might say of Paris.There is little or no doubt, that the name of Paris is asynonym of Mars, or of some star of the nature of Mars. Giving her a nativity under Aries, which rules the head, and his

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companion heads Caput Medusa and Caput Cetus, we need notwonder at the invention of the guillotine, the severed heads, andgory tides which have made France a terror.

A nativity here would come under the influence of thatvariable wonder, Mira in the whale's neck, and Algol whichincites to beheading. John the Baptist was born under thesestars and influences.

ANNA PHAROS.

THE most speculative day in the year is St. Swithin's Day, July 15.The old weather proverb runs: we

“St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain,For forty days it will remain:St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair,

For forty days 'twill rain na mair.”

The legend runs, that Swithin, who was Chancellor to King Ethelbert,

and died in 862 or 863, directed that his body should not be buried in the

cathedral at Winchester, but in such a situation that the rain might fallon his grave; he was accordingly interred in the churchyard. But aftera time, the monks deeming it dishonorable that the great patron saint ofthe cathedral and city of Winchester should lie in the open ground, they

attempted to remove it to the cathedral, but were prevented by rain,

which continued until they had abandoned their intention, or for fortydays.

It is also stated to have been founded upon a great inundation whichoccurred in 1313 upon St. Swithin's Day, recorded in Hist. Dunelm, Scriptores tres (Surtees Society), p. 96. This fearful deluge, the learned editorthinks, may probably have given to St. Swithin his watery name.

“There is nothing,” he says, “in the life of Swithin to connect himwith rainy weather, but there seems to be enough in the above inundation,

and its widely-extending consequences, to make a general and lasting

impression on the nation.

It was long thought that the notion was founded upon there being notunfrequently rain on forty days consecutively at this period of the year;but, in 1861, it was stated, from observations at Greenwich, for twentyyears that rain had fallen upon the largest number of days when St.Swithin's Day was dry.

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Høtraea Uíctrir.

KYMRY writes:– As an Englishman and a contributor, Ihope you will allow me to protest in an amiable spirit against

a remarkable passage in the article “Britannia's Star” in the

March number:—“No doubt these two nations (Spain andEngland) had about the same nativity, and there can be littledoubt that the setting stars of the one will be followed by thoseof the other.” I will not stop to inquire into the possiblemotive of this lugubrious prediction, and as to whether it could

be explained by the words of the dying king to his son,“Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought ! I stay toolong for thee,” but I will only assert confidently that thisopinion is not shared by unprejudiced observers on the Continent of Europe, or on your own, by such qualified experts asCaptain Mahan and Admiral Dewey. If this lady had seen thetriumphal progress of the Naval Brigade recently in London,

I think it would have required a jaundiced eye to see any signsof decadence, in the bronzed heroes who marched by, or inthe vigorous crowd that cheered them to the skies. And thoseothers, the “unreturning brave,” whom the earth covers faraway under Capricorn, were they a decadent breed? Or theliving arm seven thousand miles long, that is closing in with aniron grasp ; is that palsied with age? Ask the German officers,

ask the foreign military attaches who are on the spot.However, personal feeling is not my argument. As the ladyquotes Scripture with a gloss of her own to our detriment, sowill I, but in another vein. England may be Aries in theZodiac, but on the esoteric planisphere, she is Judah of whomhis father said, “Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shallpraise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thy enemies. (Gibraltar, Malta). . . . Judah is a lion's whelp . . . the sceptre

shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between hisfeet, until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the gathering of

the people be.” (Winds of the world make answer.)

ASTRAEA VICTRIX. 3 I

Perhaps some will laugh at the “thou art he,” and I will atonce admit that it is not true of the English character on theside of geniality, but it is true in the higher sense of nationalcharacter and achievement. I could quote continental writersgalore, but I will content myself with an obiter dictum of yourown Quaker poet, Whittier, given in an article by DouglasStaden, “Whittier at Home,” an interview — ///ustrated LondonNews of September, 1892.

He then went on to express himself in a way which surprised me verymuch, telling me how completely his sentiments towards England had

veered round in his last years. At the time of the War he felt very bittertowards her on account of her sympathy with the slaveholding South (i

t

was the aristocracy who sympathised, not the workingmen, not the cottonspinners o

f Manchester, etc.,) but as he grew a very old man his perception, he said, seemed to clear, and h

e

saw in England the one nation in

which policy seemed to be shaped by duty, the one really civilizing power.

He based his hopes of

the moral future of

America on her rapprochement

to England, on

the two peoples joining closely in political alliance as well

as friendship, and working out the great social and economical ques

tions together. He thought that a really cordial understanding betweenAmerica and England would abolish war.

As to the coming fall of Jupiter, I have already expressedmy opinion in THE SPHINx. Jupiter represents not a nation,

but a principle, feudalism, aristocracy, privilege; but the abolition o

f

these by the coming wave of democracy, will not be

local and confined to monarchical England, but universal. In

no country, I believe, will the results of this astral influence bemore immense than in the United States: nowhere else does

the struggle between Capital and Labor strike me as likely to

be more violent. I base this opinion on the violence of yourstrikes a

t Chicago and elsewhere in the past. Macaulay, a mandeeply versed in the love o

f empires (whose centenary falls thisyear), warned you long ago, that with your frantic cult of wealthand mammon, you would infallibly breed in your midst theHuns, who may devour your civilization. Of this I knownothing and certainly do not desire to. But as to your raceproblem in the South, no observer, however friendly, can envyyou. Do you think that the auto da ſes in which the white

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man periodically indulges, with obscene horrors that sicken theimagination, sometimes too at the expense of innocent men,

can ultimate in anything but terrible reprisals? In France,

“Damien's bed of steel ” was the seed, and perhaps the justification of the worst excesses of the terror.

It is curious in this wide outburst of moral indignation atJohn Bull's wickedness among nations, whose political morality,

like Russia and Germany, is notoriously in accordance with theSermon on the Mount: it is curious that it should be two Poles,

Sinkiewitz in Germany and Paderewski in the United States,

who have made a spirited protest for us, against the cant whichappears to flourish luxuriantly, wherever civilized men orate andscribble about their neighbors.

Recently, when I read some violently bitter and unjust ravingsagainst us of a Mr. Julian Hawthorne, the unworthy son, Ibelieve, of a man of genius, who was also a gentleman, I rubbedmy eyes in astonishment, and wondered what crimes poor JohnBull can have committed against Jonathan, to provoke suchvenom. And when I remember the recent fate of the Spaniards,and the present struggles of those noble little Filippinos, I amamused, we all are on this side, dull as we are reputed to be

in a perception of the ludicrous.

So in conclusion, I should say to the numerous Americanprophets of evil to John Bull, “Set your own house in order,my good friends, and strengthen it

s cracking foundations, beforepredicting the fall of the Gothic Parthenon.” Our forefathers,

the men of

the middle ages, leisurely folk who were in no hurry

to “make a pile” and “whip creation,” did not build skyscrapers, but they did build castles and cathedrals o

f unsurpassed splendor and solidity, which promise to rival in perma

nence the creations of

the old Egyptians.

No doubt all

things have a term, and we are told that thereshall be “a new heaven and a new earth,” when Shiloh comes,but confident am I and many with me, that not in our time, nor

at any time, if we live in the fear of God, will the proud Virgilian lament, be applied to the Mother of Nations:

Venit summa dies et ineluctabile fatum

Fuit Ilium et ingens gloria Parthenopes.

THE NEW ZEALANDER VISITING THE RUINS OF LONDON. 33

(Ibe flew Zealanoer Uígíting the RuingOf ILOnöOn.

THE oft-repeated illustration of the rise and fall of Nations—of a New Zealander sitting, like a hundredth-century Marius,

on the mouldering arches of London Bridge, contemplating thecolossal ruins of St. Paul's, is used by Lord Macaulay no lessthan four times:— in the articles on “Wellingtonia” and Mitford's “Greece,” published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine in

the year 1824; again in 1829, in his first paper on Mill; andin 1840, in his review of Austin’s “Ranke.” The simile, to

use the editor's words, was the subject of allusion two or three

times a week, in speeches and leading articles, and still doesoccasional duty. It is

,

after all, but a paraphrase of Marius

among the Ruins of Carthage.

Now, it so happens that in December, 1819, five years beforeMacaulay's article on Mitford appeared, the poet Shelley wrote

as follows, in the dedicatory letter of

his poem, “Peter Bell theThird,” to Tom Brown (Moore):—“In the firm expectation,”says he, speaking o

f

the longevity of

the poem in question,

“when London shall be an habitation of bitterns, when St.

Paul's and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and name

less ruins in the midst of

an unpeopled marsh; when the piers

of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds

and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches

on

the solitary stream, some transatlantic traveller will weigheverything in the scales of some new system o

f criticism, and

the merits of

the present work be recognized.”

But we must look even earlier than Shelley for its applica

tion. Volney, in the second chapter of his “Ruins of Empires,”has an analogous passage. “Who knows," he writes, “butthat hereafter some traveller like myself, will si

t

down upon the

banks of

the Seine, the Thames, or

the Zuyder Zee, where now,

in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow

to take in the multitude of

sensations — who knows, but he will

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sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and mourn a people inurned,

and their greatness changed into an empty name?” EvenHenry Kirke White was inspired by the idea of this probable

contingency, and, in his fragmentary poem on “Time,” descantsupon the desolation of Great Britain: —

On her marts,

Her crowded ports, broods silence; and the cry

Of the lone curlew, and the pensive dashOf distant billows, break alone the void.Even as the savage sits upon the stone

That marks where stood her capitals, and hearsThe bittern booming in the weeds.

The conception is a beautiful one, or it would not havebeen so extensively employed. In one of Walpole's lively letters to Sir H. Mann, he says: “At last some curious nativeof Lima will visit London, and give a sketch of the ruins ofWestminster and St. Paul's.”

HORACE WELBY.

ANCIENT PROPHECY OF THE DISMEMBERMENT OF CHINA.

IN the “Tui Pei Tu,” a book written about five hundred years ago,and esteemed so dangerous a possession that not a printed copy is to be

had now, and even Europeans who have owned it,

have been known to

burn it rather than run the risk of being found with it in their possession.

In this book there is a prophecy that in the New Year, beginning forChina o

n Jan. 22, 1898, China is to be partitioned among five peoples.

And in their pigeon-English, Chinamen are saying, “Russia have topside, and French h

e wantchee more Tonguin side, now German he

take

Chou Chou bay — Mellican man and English must want something.” If

for Mellican man we read Japanese man, the prophecy looks like coming

true and the fact of

its diffusion may help towards its realization.

— Spectator.

AN ILLUSTRATED HOROSCOPE.-35

Eln IIIugtrateo ThotogCOpé.

Showing How ASTRoloGERS ForM THEIR JUDGMENTS.

GENTLEMAN Born June 9, 1831, Io.30 P.M., AT JERSEY CITY.

This gentleman was bornunder Saturn in conjunction

with Herschel and Mars, in

Taurus, in opposition to theMoon, with Aquarius rising.

A person is said to be bornunder that planet which rules

or is lord of the sign ascendingon the eastern horizon at birth.

Before Herschel was discovered

the Ancients taught that Saturn

ruled Aquarius, and we prefer

to use it in this figure.

36 THE SPHINX.

He is near the medium

height, rather stout, with

brown hair, and a light moustache, round face, thick neck

and a dark complexion.

His manner will be reserved

and thoughtful, and at timesgloomy.

He is very stubborn andwill at times be flighty.

His intellect is above theaverage and anything he likes

he will learn quickly, yet

he will never make a goodscholar.

He is best adapted for

some mechanical employment; would make a good

machinist or anything where

he could handle sharp tools.

The sign in which his planet

is found is termed stout, and

Saturn is a medium-sized planet,

and will give dark hair. Marswill tend to lighten the moustache. Taurus gives a thick

neck and dark complexion.

Saturn gives a reserved, quiet

character, and any bad aspect

to Saturn will make him depressed, as Saturn has a power

ful influence over his life, and

afflicts him at birth.

The sign his planet is in is a

stubborn one, so is his ruling

star. The Moon being in exactopposition to the erratic Herschel, will make him odd andpeculiar at times.

Four planets are in the 3d,

the house ruling the mind, andthe Sun is also in an intellectual

sign; but the Moon being soheavily afflicted he will never

make rapid progress.

For a man's business we

notice the Ioth house, and here

Mars rules it,

also the 9th, andthe Moon is therein and disposed o

f by Mars, and Marsrules sharp instruments and is

in the 3d house which rules thearms and hands, and Herschel

is in conjunction with Mars, andHerschel rules machinery andinventions.

AN ILLUSTRATED HOROSCOPE. 37

Those who live with him

should never tease or irritate

him, as he could when provoked commit some violent

act which he might regret allhis life.

He will never be reallypoor, as he will have friends

who will keep him frompoverty.

He should inherit someproperty or receive a legacy.

This horoscope has beenselected as a lesson, because

it is so evil for marriage.

This gentleman does notmarry, or if he does is extremely unhappy thereby.

He could have married

about the age of twenty-five,

and if so, his wife is dead or

he has separated from her.

The Moon his co-significator

being in Scorpio, an evil sign,

and afflicted by three evil planets

in Taurus, the sign of the Bull,

which gives a furious, ungovern

able temper when aroused. Atsuch times he would have no

consideration for even his best

friend.

Jupiter the Greater Fortunerules the 2d, his house of money,

also the I Ith, his house offriends, and Jupiter is in good

aspect with the Sun.Jupiter also rules the 8th, hishouse of wills and legacies, and

is placed therein.

For a man's marriage we takethe Moon and notice what aspects she makes after birth.Here the Moon has just left

an aspect of “perfect hatred,”

with Saturn his own planet, and

is hastening to another aspect

of “perfect hatred" with Mars.Mars in Taurus therefore will

describe his future wife, and

Taurus is an unfortunate signfor Mars to be in. This will

be modified by the sign ruling

the 7th, the house of marriage;the Sun is its lord and is in

good aspect with Jupiter.

The strongest planet, andJupiter generally marries a man,

and at the age of twenty-five

Jupiter will be on the place of

38 THE SPHINX.

His wife would be near

the medium height, ratherstout, with brown hair and

a light complexion.

His married life will bring

him nothing but quarrels andreproaches.

If he is single therefore,he must never think of marry

ing, and if he has marriedand is separated, he must

not marry a second time, asit will be as unfortunate asthe first.

He would not have anybetter luck even if he tried

marriage a third time.It is doubtful if his wiveswould have any children.

his Moon, but being in the houseof death at birth it could have

ended that way. His violenttemper probably exhausted hervital forces, and she faded away.

Saturn in Taurus describedhimself, and Mars in Taurus

describes his wife and Mars willlighten her complexion.

Mars is a fighting planet, andthe Moon being disposed of by

Mars and in opposition to thatplanet, and as it rules his wife,

he will be continually irritating

her and arousing her temper,

sometimes goading her into

frenzies of rage, like the Toreador with his red scarf irritates

and goads the bull.The second aspect the Moon

makes is another opposition toVenus, also in Taurus in the3d, the house of near relatives,

cousins and neighbors; and asVenus rules that house he could

marry a relative.

The third aspect the Moon

makes is another opposition toMercury in Taurus.Saturn limits or denies, Mars

scatters and the Sun burns up;

and the Sun is here on the cusp

of the 5th, his house of children, and the planets ruling hiswives being so heavily afflicted

shows they had poor health, andit is doubtful if they would ever

be able to bear or raise a family.

AN ILLUSTRATED HOROSCOPE. 39

“Is marriage a failure?” has often been asked. In thisinstance we would say, “most decidedly it is,” for with such a

chart it would be impossible for anyone to be happily married.

The Illustrated Horoscope that follows in a later number, will

show planetary conditions that promise a happy marriage.

CATHARINE H. THOMPSON.

A RHAPSODY!

By Capt. R. J. Morrison * (“Zadkie?”), Author of the “Grammar of Astrology,” etc.FAR, far in the distance, far !Away from the glimmer of moon, or star.Where no bound is felt by my soul in flight,Beyond the day and beyond the night !

Far away, in the endless wilds of space,

I’d speed on, on, the strangest raceThat mortal e'er dreamed, or spirit e'er fled;Away from the living, away from the dead.

Beyond the light of a sun, or a star,

With no being create, my peace to mar;

To be nearer to Him, forever I’d fly;And readily too and joyfully die.

"Mid angels I’d be, as bright as the sun,No end to the joy, in the race I would run.Till spirits by millions, in numbers untold,Should me to their arms, so loving, enfold.

Where cherubs will be — where seraphs still are,Who never have known either pain or care;

Where angels still smile and where spirits still sing,

All Heaven rejoices and Hosannas ring !

Away from this dreary, terrestrial ball,Calm, let me await my Heavenly call;

With no bound to my flight, to my speed no bar:Far, far in the distance, far !

* Captain Morrison died February, 1874,aged 8o years.

4O THE SPHINX.

$ignatures of the planetº.

THE SIGNATURE OF VENUS.

Those born under this influence have a great resemblance,

physical and moral, to those born under Jupiter, these twoplanets being equally brilliant and beautiful, only in theVenus type the beauty and character are more feminine. They

have also the white skin, but it is more rosy, soft, fine andtransparent still. They are as a rule of medium stature, nottall; they have a round face; the bones of the face are nowhere visible, the cheeks are small, plump and often adornedwith a dimple; the forehead is beautiful, round, rather small

than large, slightly marked with azure veins, and when they

are sad, two or three little lines are visible between the eyebrows, the place dedicated to Venus in metoscopie. Theeyebrows are beautiful, thick, long, clean-cut, well-drawn andarched.

The hair is long, thick, undulating, supple, black or darkbrown, and is retained even into old age. The nose is straight,elegant, round, rather fleshy at the end; the nostrils are roundand slightly dilated; the eyes are large, humid and joyous,

voluptuous in their look, brown, and slanting slightly upwards

at the outside, and the pupil is large; the eyelids when closed

are round, thick and traversed with capillary veins. The mouthis small and red, the lips are thick, especially the lower one,

of which the right side is slightly swollen. The teeth arewhite and well arranged; the gums are coral-colored. The

chin is round, plump, rather long and adorned with a dimple;

the jaws do not show. The ears are small, the lobe being

small and fleshy. The neck is white, strong, round, of moderate length and like a tower of ivory, as Herder says. The

shoulders are sloping and narrow, the deltoid muscles areround and plump, the breast is narrow but fleshy. The breastsof the women are full, round and set low like that of the antique

SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 4 I

Venus. The arms are round and have a dimple at the elbow,

and the bones are nowhere visible. Because of the hips which

are high and developed in both sexes, the sides are arched,

but the thighs are long, plump, beautiful and elegantly formed;

the contour is sinuous and pure but without harshness; the

stomach is apparent without being prominent, and the knees,plump also, are slightly inclined inwards; the legs are strong;

the calves gradually diminish to the ankle, where the joints are

fine but round; the feet are small, elegant and dazzling withwhiteness.

They love elegant attire and bright dresses; they are fond

of pleasure, and are especially prone to love affairs, and that,

just because they are good, gentle, affable and often naive.

Their first thought is always a kindly one. They love festivities

and pleasure parties, but more for sociability than for the good

cheer. They eat little, and by preference, the dishes whichexcite to love. Perfumes and flowers are in a measure neces

sities of life to them. In music they prefer melody to harmony,

which belongs to people influenced by the Moon. They willingly sing and seek applause, but more through a desire to give

pleasure than to shine. They take great care of their complexion and hair. They love adornment, and the men of thistype like to wear jewelry and feminine ornaments. They areconfiding and are often deceived. They are fond of revery

and sensuous pleasures. Beautiful forms please them, and

the painters born under the influence of Venus are especially

draughtsmen. Raphael was specially influenced by Venus and

the Sun. They are friendly disposed beforehand to all

people

whose features, forms and walk charm their eyes. They abhor

all quarrels, noise and inharmony. They are gay and ofa con

stant cheerfulness. Venus gives men feminine forms, and whenthese forms are in excess, effeminate tastes. Those whom she

does not incite to debauchery she makes kind, benevolent andcharitable.

Venus gives to artists, orators, poets, actors and musicians

the gift of charming and touching, what is called soul. There

are no artists who are not found under the influence of Venus.

42 THE SPHINx.

If such an anomaly should be found, they make of art not awork of inspiration but of science. They astonish, and sometimes cause admiration, but never touch the heart or emotions.

The hands of persons of this type are plump, tapering anddimpled; the fingers are smooth, rather short than long; theskin is a warm white; the thumb is short and the root of thethumb is full and covered with lines.

THE SIGNATURE OF MERCURY.

Those ruled by Mercury are short, and well proportioned:

the face is long but agreeable, they long retain a youthfuldisposition, and always appear younger than they really are.Their complexion is pale and honey-colored and when animatedquickly colors. The hair is brown or chestnut, soft and slightlycurling grows slowly: their skin is soft and they move theirheads constantly. The forehead is high, and full at the organs

of causality and comparison. The beard is short, thin andgenerally dark. The eyebrows fine, long and arched, oftenmeet. The eyes set deep are brown or hazel, and a littlecovered by the eyebrows: they are restless, very mobile andexpressive: the white is somewhat yellow, and the lids are fine:

the nose is straight and long, the nostrils not much dilated, andthe end somewhat round, with often a slight dimple or depres

sion. The lips are thin, often slightly open, and slightly dip atthe sides, the upper one is thicker and projects a little; theteeth are small and the chin is long and pointed; the head atthe sides is enlarged at the organs of the marvellous and acquisitiveness, which gives a desire for gain and skill in business.

The neck is strong, the shoulders are developed, the breast isbroad, even and fleshy, the sides are arched and very supple

(acrobats are influenced by Mercury), the arms and legs aresmall but fine and robust. When Mercury is powerful in ahoroscope, the cultivation of the mind, and the subordination of

the passions to the reason, will cause a gradual transformationfrom the animal or human, to the divine expression. Mensagitat molem. Mind moulds matter. Michelet somewherespeaks of a French writer of distinction, we believe it was

SIGNATURES OF THE PLANETS. 43

Littre, who, though born a peasant with a plain, almost ugly.

face, transformed it by plain living and high thinking, intosomething truly noble and distinguished in its expression, a facethat any artist would study and record with pleasure. The

voice is weak. (Aristotle and Plato had weak voices; men ofscience have generally this characteristic.) Those born underthe influence of Mercury, are quick in body and mind, skilledin physical exercises such as fencing and dancing, or in those

which require skill of hand and eye, such as billiards, tennis andgolf: they walk quickly, readily break into a run and are nimbleand graceful. It is Mercury who gives talent to dancers andacrobats.

From other points of view Mercury men are intelligent,

quick-witted with much inventiveness, witty and remarkably

intuitive. They are nearly always acute, perspicacious andfull of tact and diplomacy. They are attracted to the occultsciences, the Kabbala, magic, astrology, and metaphysical

studies: but notwithstanding their natural facility, they study

everything they undertake conscientiously, perseveringly andlovingly: it is among them that we find grammarians, philosophers, physiologists, doctors judging inspirationally, geometri

cians. They have natural eloquence, and excel in the churchor at the bar. Tumblers, acrobats, circus riders are the hardhanded variety, and thinkers and occult students the soft-handed.Mercury adds to the causality of Saturn, the comparison whichfinds illustrations of the theory involved. Mercury is the intellect, Saturn is system and order. Mercury and Saturn combined can give genius. Saturn cannot do without Mercury.

As a rule, men ruled by this planet are gentle and amiable;they have a real gift for commerce, to which they bring quick

intuitions and broad views. Yet they are liable to envy andare monopolists, and often not over delicate in their methods.Mercury, it should be remembered was mythologically the god

of thieves. Shakespeare makes the rogue Autolycus soliloquize thus:— “My traffic is streets; when the kite builds lookto lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus, who being

as I am littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper up ofunconsidered trifles.”

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44 THE SPHINX.

It is well not to actively interfere with their methods inbusiness, but to watch them closely. In my opinion they

form the most dangerous type, because of their cunning andegotism. On the other hand, they are extremely agreeablecompany, bright, humorous, and sometimes satirical, but withenough tact not to wound. These are the men who succeed

in society, because they animate it with their brilliant conversational talents. They are domestic, and love their homes andchildren; they love al

lchildren; they enjoy traveling, and study

natural science by preference.Although this is severe, yet women ruled by Mercury shouldbe avoided, if their horoscope is very much afflicted. They

are greedy, turn everything to account, and are the more dangerous because they are born actresses, and project a fascination which intoxicates: it is among them that we find the

women who, already past their prime, excite the most violentpassions. They especially dominate the Moon type whichabsorbs their fascinations, and is naturally attracted towards

women whose youth is past. Nothing is more common than to

see the young Moon man, amorous of

the Mercury woman past

forty, and that to the point of killing himself for her. It must

also be admitted that they are gracious, insinuating, born comediennes and coquettes, dressing with taste, and taking infinitepains to please with every seduction o

f

the eyes, hands and

feet. They easily disguise their real age, because Mercurylong retains a youthful look. These women are dangerous

sirens. The long hands of

the Mercury type (the fingers aresmooth and o

f

the mixed type with the scientist) are small in

the women. The little finger is often pointed and long: thethumb is long and the fingers very supple.

[Concluded.]

THE air is one vast library, on whose pages are forever written all thatman has ever said, or

woman whispered.

PROFESSOR BABBAGE.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JULY. 45

16írthbap ſinformation and 2)ailp Howicefor 3 tulp,

“With an unsteady paceBright Cancer rolls.”

(THE SUN ENTERs CANCER JUNE 22, AND LEAVES IT JULY 22.)

1. SUNDAY (Sun's Day). Today is favorable; you canvisit, enjoy yourself, but be careful of fire.

Your anniversary points to an active year, and disputes arein evidence. Avoid law and litigation; guard against fire andtheft, and be not too free with expense. If you observe this,there will be a balance in your favor at the close of the year.

A child born today will be unruly, headstrong and difficultto manage; when grown up it must be satisfied to remain inthe employ of others, and not attempt to do business on its ownaccount.

2. MONDAY (Moon's Day). It is good for all

businessaffairs. Approach superiors, ask favors, seek employment,write letters, but do not journey.

Your coming year promises fairly well, and with care an

improvement in your affairs will be noted. Be careful of

changes and of your diet.

A child born today will be headstrong and restless, and willbe lucky only in the employ of others.

3. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Today is favorable for ordinary

affairs.

The coming year will be a quiet one on

the whole, thoughfavorable. Easier home affairs are spoken of, with probablechanges and additions to the same. Accept any reasonablechance that presents itself.

A child born today will be well-behaved, much respectedand moderately fortunate.

4.

WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is an excellent day

in general. Seek employment, ask favors, conclude financialarrangements, buy o

r sell, and force matters. Housewivesshould bake today.

Your anniversary seems to promise favorably, and with theyear under way some improvements in your affairs will be

46 The SPHINX.

noted. Changes are spoken of, and you will add to yourpresent scope. Take al

l

reasonable chances, and do

not fritteryour time away, but be busy.

A child born today will be bright and clever, will possessexcellent abilities, and is destined to rise rapidly in life.

5. THURSDAY (Jupiter's Day). Today is unfavorable. Look

sharp to all

matters and postpone affairs of importance. Do

not journey, and guard against accidents. It is a good day to

bake.

The coming year will be an unfavorable one for you, and

only by the greatest care on your part will you escape misfortune. Make no changes in your affairs that you can possiblyavoid, and beware o

f law, disputes, speculation and foolishpleasures.

A child born today is destined to be unlucky all throughlife, whether employed o

r not; for it will lack energy andperseverance, two qualities necessary for success in life.

6. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). Today is good for all affairs of

a business or

social nature. Visit, approach persons in power,journey, remove, ask favors and seek amusement. You cango fishing today with success.

You are favored this coming year, and your property willenhance in value. You will have some additions to your affairs,changes in your undertakings, and favors from those in power.Accept all chances of a legitimate nature, and make every daycount. Remember the unfortunate.

A child born today will possess perseverance and steadiness,and will do well; if a girl, when grown-up she will be likely

to marry a man addicted to drink.

7.

SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). Favorable for social affairs,business and favors; avoid changes and do not journey. This

is another good day to go fishing.

Your coming year favors you on the whole, and your affairs

in general will proceed as usual, but care is urged in writings,

agreements of all kinds, and in changes. Be guarded when

sickness appears.

A boy born today will enjoy company and having a good time,and will be lucky, whether employed orin business for himself.

8. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). Today is unfavorable. Lookwell to domestic affairs, avoid disputes, and go to church. If

it were not Sunday, you could go fishing.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JULY. 47

Your anniversary is not favorable, and there will be muchthat will occur as the year is passing to cause you anxiety.Domestic unpleasantness, disappointments, and some difficultythrough law. Look well to your position, and make no additions to your affairs, or change. Some sickness is also indicated.

A boy born today will be fond of outdoor sports and pleasure, and will often drink more than is wholesome for him; buthis success in life will depend upon the exact hour of his birth.

9. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is favorable for changesand journeys, but guard against accident and fire, and looksharp to financial outlay. Today is a good day to hire malehelp.

Your coming year contains both good and evil in its promises. It is a year that with proper astrological advice, and theobservance o

f

the same, will redound much to your advantage.See that you get it

,

and do not let your chances pass by. Lookwell to litigation, and keep your property insured. Accidentsare denoted.

A child born today will be lucky in nearly everything that

it will undertake, and is destined to rise in life; but it will have

a quick temper, will be rash and liable to accidents.

Io. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Look sharp today in all

affairs. Make no moves of importance that can be avoided,and attend closely to your duties. You can hire male helptoday. -

You have a trying year before you, and your affairs willneed close attention. Make no changes of importance, butrather look to caring for what you have, than to adding thereto. You will be undecided and very apt to indulge in somerash move. Don't do so. Those in employ should look well

to their position.

A child born today will experience many strange accidentsand injuries; but it

s

success in life will depend entirely uponthe hour of its birth.

I 1. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). Care is advised today.Ordinary matters may be attended to, and slight changesindulged in, but make no important move, and avoid elderly

persons. Housewives should bake today.

The coming year cannot be considered as favoring you.Sickness, even to a probable bereavement, is likely, and you

48 THE SPHINX.

should look well to the former when appearing. Avoid thewater relative to journeys, and guard against poisoning. Letintoxicants alone, and do not speculate. The observance ofthe foregoing will save you much, indeed.A boy born today must never when mature try to go intobusiness for himself, as he is sure to fail. He must be willingall his life to take positions, for that is where his destiny lies.If a girl, she is liable when grown to womanhood to meet withsome serious disgrace.

12. THURSDAY (Jupiter's Day). It is an evil day in general. Look well to your pleasures, do not make changes, andavoid dissensions and domestic quarrels. It is another goodday to bake.

Your anniversary is an evil one, and the year will bring youmuch trouble. Look sharp to all social and domestic affairs;remember “the way of the transgressor is hard.” Be careful ofsickness, and look well to your position or business. There isloss of friends, loss of preferment, and a general bad outlook,unless the greatest care is observed.

A child born today will always be unfortunate, whether inemploy or not, and will experience many reverses in life.

13. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). Today is favorable for generalaffairs. Visit, journey, remove, seek amusement, ask favorsand look for work. Fear not Friday or the thirteenth. Friday

is lucky to America. You can hire male help today and theywill suit.

Your coming year seems to favor you in the main, and youraffairs will pass along fairly well. Some favors from superiorsand gain through friendships are indicated. Beneficial changesof a slight nature are shown as well. Be up and doing, andhelp yourself along.

A child born today is destined to be successful in all itsundertakings, and will surely rise in life.

14. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). It is an uncertain day;avoid changes, writings and removals. You can hire male helptoday with advantage.

Your anniversary promises activity as the year is passing;and with care on your part regarding additions, changes,writings, etc., you will be able to hold your own. Thoseadvanced in years should look well to their health.

A child born today will be headstrong, obstinate and active,and will meet with very little success in life.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADVICE, JULY. 49

15. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). Today is unfavorable.Rest. It is a good day to go fishing, but go to church instead;seek interior communion.

You have a trying year before you, with annoyances andanxieties abounding. Home affairs will require your closeattention, and disappointments therein are likely. Guard wellyour friendships, and be careful of promises. Sickness isthreatened. Some favors will be shown you.

A boy born today will be unfortunate, because he will beextravagant, idle and improvident, and will therefore be destined to poverty; if a girl, when grown up she will be veryunlucky in marriage.

16. MoNDAY (The Moon's Day). It is favorable for all

matters in general, but avoid controversy. Ask favors, approach superiors, and seek employment. You can hire femalehelp today.

You are somewhat favored this coming year, and your affairs

in general should improve. Be active, aggressive, but not contentious. Easier matters in home affairs are indicated, and helpfrom friends and superiors. Be careful o

f expenses, and donot fritter away your time.

A boy born today will be headstrong, determined and rash,but will always be lucky in holding positions, which he shouldseek, rather than to branch out for himself. If born a girl,when grown up she will contract an unhappy marriage.

17. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Postpone affairs of importancetoday, and do not journey. From now to the 26th you canset ducks, geese and turkeys.

You have an uneasy year before you, with anxiety and prob

ably sickness as well. Note all

social and home affairs, andlook to the health o

f

those near you. Some good friends arespoken o

f through whom you will benefit. You can even havesome small financial promises, although your expenses willabsorb all gains.

A child born today must never think of going into businessfor itself, for it will periodically meet with failures; it

s safety

lies in working for others.

18. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). It is favorable todayfor writings, journeys or

removals. Be not too free with yourpleasures. Housewives should bake today.

Your anniversary will bring good and evil, and is one thatneeds astrological advice; obtaining it you can end the year

50 THE SPHINX.

with a handsome surplus to your credit, whereas without itthere will be a heavier outlay in proportion to your income.Look sharp to your pleasures.

A child born today will be persevering, active and fortunate,especially in business.

19. THURSDAY (Jupiter's Day). It is a moderately goodday, but begin nothing new. From now to the 26th you canset fowls. A good day to bake.You have much to contend with this coming year, andnaught but the closest attention to your affairs will enable youto prosper. Make but few changes, and look to sickness withinyour circle. Avoid contentions, and guard against fire andtheft.

A boy born today will be clever and smart, but will not belucky; a girl will be lucky in marriage.

20. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). You can visit friends, seekamusements, hire female help, but don't journey.

Your coming year is not fortunate. You will need to lookwell to your position and business, making no changes or additions yourself. Guard your health, and do not encourageadditional outlay.

A boy born today will experience trouble all through hislife, especially in business, and will succeed best in being employed by others. If born a girl, she will be fortunate inmarriage.

21. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). Quietness in all

matters

is advised today. You can hire good female help today.

Your anniversary contains both good and evil in its outcome.Note well all disbursements, and do not encourage speculativeaffairs o

f any kind. Some assistance from friends, and favorsfrom superiors are spoken of. Guard against fire, and keep yourproperty insured.

A child born today must never think of going into businessfor itself, but must always hold positions.

22. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). It is a moderately goodday. Go to church.You have some fair promises with the coming year, and if

radical changes are avoided, you will find yourself in bettershape. Be guarded in your expressions, and don't get blue.Easier home affairs are spoken of.

.

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION, DAILY ADvice, JULY. 5 I

A boy born today will never be successful in business, owingto his restless disposition, but he will be fond of traveling andwill do much of it

. If a girl, she will contract a fortunatemarriage.

23. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is an evil day, butyou can hire male help and they will be satisfactory.

You have an unfortunate year before you, and will need to

use great care in all matters. Guard against accident and fire;look to the health o

f

those about you, and avoid controversy.

A probable bereavement is likely; ask your Maker for strengthto bear it.

A boy born today will be very unlucky, always a trouble to

himself and a care to everyone connected with him, for he willpossess an unmanageable disposition, will be headstrong, careless and unfortunate. If a girl, while she will marry well,

is destined to meet with some great misfortune.

24. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Today is favorable, so seekamusement, ask favors, visit friends and look for work. Youcan bake o

r go fishing and hire female help today.

Your coming year favors you somewhat and matters ingeneral will improve. Some probable addition and changes

in your home are spoken of

with easier condition. Note allopportunities and make them count.

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A boy born today will have many friends who will prove of

advantage and will confer benefits. If a girl, she will befortunate and happy and will marry well.

25. WEDNESDAY (Mercury's Day). Be careful today in

all matters. Attend to your ordinary affairs, and let wellenough alone. You can bake today, hire female help, or gofishing.

You are not favored this coming year, and there will bemany annoyances arising a

s it advances. Unfavorable changes,financial losses and sickness seem imminent, so be careful andprudent.

A child born today, its destiny will depend very much on its

hour of birth; but the indications are, that it will lead a quiet

and uneventful life.

26. THURSDAY (Jupiter's Day). Today is favorable forall matters. Be up and doing, and make every hour bring

a return. It is the last day to set ducks, fowls, geese andturkeys.

52 THE SPhinx.

You have a favorable anniversary before you, and improvements are promised. Help comes from friends, through yourown exertions and from superiors. Additions to your affairsare indicated, and you will do well to make all matters count.You will not always be so fortunate. Remember your brotherin distress and lend a helping hand.A child born today will have many friends, will be fortunatein business, and enjoy quite a good deal of success.

27. FRIDAY (Venus' Day). It is generally favorable forwritings and agreements, friendship and favors, also to journeyand remove.

Your anniversary holds out some favorable promises, andwith strict attention to your affairs, looking well to sicknessboth of yourself and family, the year should end well.A child born today will be clever, active and fortunate,especially in business; will enjoy traveling about, and will domuch of it.

28. SATURDAY (Saturn's Day). Today is good for allgeneral purposes. Travel, remove, ask favors and enjoy yourself.

Your coming year is favorable for you in various ways.Your affairs will be active, and changes are in evidence bothin your social and business affairs. Be careful of your expenses and don't try to increase them.A child born today will be generous, persevering and steady,but will be more prosperous in working for others, and shouldnot attempt to branch out for itself.

29. SUNDAY (The Sun's Day). Today is a pleasant day.Rest and go to church.Your coming year will be a quiet one on the whole, withyour affairs proceeding as usual; if anything, improvementswill be in evidence, and home matters will take on an easiercondition. Be guarded in all journeys and changes.

A child born today will be obstinate but well-conducted;

its

career in life will depend a great deal on the hour of its

birth.

30. MONDAY (The Moon's Day). It is an unfavorable day;look sharp to all matters and attend closely to your duties.

You are not favored this year, and while there does notappear to be any marked matters o

f

evil apparent, yet trials

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and anxieties will abound. Make no changes of importance,and look well to what you have. Avoid litigation, be guardedagainst fire, theft and accidents. Sickness will enter your home.

A child born today will be imprudent, rash and headstrong,and although it

s prosperity depends upon holding positions, it

will find it very difficult to keep them, as it will lack the qualityof obedience.

31. TUESDAY (Mars' Day). Today is moderately goodfor business matters, changes and journeys. Be careful in

all social affairs.

You have an active year before you, and one that containspossibilities o

f success, which can as easily become a failure,

so attend carefully to everything and do not get discouraged,

and do not let pleasure interfere with business, or try to attempt

too much.

A boy born today will rise rapidly in life, but will never beable to save o

r acquire a fortune, owing to the drain that hisfamily will be upon him, which will keep him constantly poor.

ASTOR.

NotE.— The first paragraph after the date is the advice for the day,and applies to everyone.The second paragraph is only for the year, and applies to those whosebirthday falls on that day.The third paragraph applies only to infants who happen to b

e born onthat day, but in this month and year.— ED.

DISCOVERY OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.

John VARLEY, the painter, well known to have been attached to astrology, used

to relate a tradition, that the Gunpowder Plot was discovered by

Dr. John Dee,

with his Magic Mirror; and he urged the difficulty, if not impossibility, of

interpreting Lord Monteagle's letter without some other clue or information.Now, in a Common Prayer Book, printed b

y

Baskett, in 1737, is an engraving of

the following scene. In the center is a circular mirror ona stand, in which is the

reflection of

the Houses of

Parliament by

night, and a person entering carrying a

dark lantern. On the left side are two men in the costume of

James' time, looking

into the mirror: one, evidently the king; the other, from his secular habit, notDoctor Dee, but probably Sir Kenelm Digby. On the right side, at the top, is theeye o

f

Providence darting a ray on the mirror; and below are some legs and hoofs,

as if evil spirits were flying out of

the picture. The plate is inserted before theservice for the 5th o

f November, and would seem to represent the method by

which, under Providence, the discovery of

the Gunpowder Plot was, at that time,

generally credited to have been effected. The tradition must have been generally

and seriously believed, or it never could have found its way into a Prayer Bookprinted by

the King's Printer.

54 THE SPHINX.

Cbe $5cience of Celegtial ºbílogopbp Relatingto ſºlativitieg.

FounDED ON THE TRUE AND PROGRESSIVE MOTION OF THE PLANE

TARY BODIES ; ExPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED witHDIAGRAMS, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.

By G. T. F. SMITH TO R. PRICE.

LETTER No. 4.

CHELTENHAM, January, 1853.

DEAR SIR: Many happy years to you, with kind acknowledgments. You are wrong for L. Napoleon's Moon to trine ofSun refers to June 4, 1808, at noon. Moon's longitude is 16°31' Libra, Sun's longitude is 13° 36' Gemini, eleven hours after

his birth time. Reduce Moon to the Sun; 2° 55' off gives fivehours from eleven; reducing that to six hours, three minutes,

or forty-five years and three months, July, 1853.You must be exact in these matters; and in parallels, etc.,use the rule for the double motion of the Sun, or others with

the Moon. See Placidus' (Cooper's) rules. I here give anillustration of it

,

as follows:

Take the natus of a person born August, 1794, we find fromthe ephemeris, Aug. 5

, 1794, Sun's declination 16° 53', Aug. 6,

16° 37', giving 16' as the Sun's diurnal difference. On Aug. 5

the Moon's Dec. was 15° 3', Aug. 6, 17° 32', which gives 2°

29' as the Moon's diurnal difference. As the Sun is decreasing

in declination, add his diurnal difference of

16' to that of

the

Moon, 2° 29, -2° 45'. If the planet or Sun be increasing,

then subtract one from the other; but if one planet be retro

grade and the other direct, add.

G)'s Dec. on the 5th, 16° 53'.D’s i - 4 : 4 : 4 4

15° 3'.

Difference, 1° 50'.

THE SCIENCE OF CELESTIAL PHILOSOPHY. 55

Then, the diurnal motion of the Sun from Moon: if 2° 45',gives 24 hours, what will 1° 50' give? It gives 16 hours,making it 4 A.M. on Aug. 6 when Moon met the declination ofthe Sun.

I am introducing you into the method of indisputable directions, but withal I feel that I have much to do, even intuitiveas you are, to make myself properly understood by letter.You perceive the necessity of astral chemistry being wellunderstood, and kept in mind. Few dream of this importance.

All the doctrine is in Ptolemy. It will not answer to touchthese matters lightly. You will find I have kept it all in view,and must refer you to those examples.

I shall now show you another proof in the natus of Matthews'“At Home” that you have sent me. My labor has been close,and carefully directed, and yours must be the same. You

should erect the radical figure, placing the local planets forevery year, or to any particular time required in those figures.

You see their operation before you, if compared with the radix.We will now take the nativity of the celebrated CharlesMatthews. The time of birth is taken from his Memoirs.

[Note.—The horoscopical map is left blank. Perhaps somestudent will supply the data.-E.D.]In the local figure for 1822 we find Venus conjunction Sunin the second house, and both in trine to Part of Fortune ; Moon

in second house, sextile Uranus, Mars, and Venus; Moon

semi-sextile to Jupiter and Mars from the second. Here ispecuniary testimony, excited by the quintile of Jupiter inSeptember, and the trine excitement of Saturn and Jupiter

in January, 1822; also in March, Mars retrograding in Leoexciting. All the year the Moon was excited.The year 1823 was equally remarkable, for in addition tomoney making testimony, we have the square to the Moon by

the Moon, and Moon radix in sesquisquare to Jupiter,<danger of libel, etc.But the climax is the year of death, 59 years, keeping inmind what I have laid down. Compare the following positionsto the radix. [Map blank.-ED.] : Moon in sixth house, 21°

56 THE SPHINX.

Capricorn in the week when death took place, having been inopposition to Sun radix; Moon sesquisquare Sun local, Moonsesquisquare Mercury local, Moon square Saturn; Moonopposition Mercury; Moon opposition Mars; Sun semisquareSaturn, perfect; Moon semisquare Mars radix;— nine directions, and all of them malignant, and Saturn in Libra in June,1835, exciting the whole of them, with only one interveningor helping ray, that of Moon to her own sextile, where shewas in semisquare to Saturn at birth. Then note the excitement to all this, Saturn's conjunction in Libra to Saturn radix.No difficulty here in determining the result!You will perceive the hylegiacal power of the luminariesat all times, irrespective of their being in prorogatory places,

which was shrewdly observed by Mr. Wilson, that they haddeserved more attention than had been given them by eitherPtolemy or Placidus. (See p. 9, Wilson's Dictionary.)

Yours truly,GEORGE SMITH.

A FEw MoRE WoRDs About John PARTRIDGE.

THE secret of Isaac Bickerstaff's real name was for a time well kept,

for poor Partridge, unwilling, as an astrologer, to appear ignorant of anything, opens manfully on a false scent, in the following letter, dated London,

April 2, 1708, addressed to Isaac Manley, postmaster of Ireland, who,

to add to the jest, was a particular friend of Dean Swift, the real tormentor. It ran as follows:

LONDON, April 2, 1708.Old Friend, I don't doubt but you are imposed on in Ireland also by a pack ofrogues about my being dead: the principal author of it is one in Newgate, lately inthe pillory for a libel against the State. There is no such man as Isaac Bickerstaff;

it is a sham name, but his true name is Pettie; he is always either in a cellar orgarret or a gaile; and therefore you may by that judge what kind of reputation thisfellow hath to be credited in the world. In a word, he is a poor scandalous neces.sitous creature, and would do as much by his own father, if living, to get a crown;but enough of such a rascal.I thank God, I am very well in health; and at the time he had doomed me todeath, I was not in the least out of order. The truth is

,it was a high flight ata

venture, hit or miss; he knows nothing of astrology, but hath a good stock of im

pudence and lying. Pray, sir, excuse this trouble, for no

man can better tell you I

am well than myself; and this is to undeceive your credulous friends that may yetbelieve the death of

Your real humble Servant,

John PARTRIDGE.

SYMBOLICAL FIGURES FROM NINEVAH. 57

$5pmbolical jigures from flinewab.

THE visitor to the British Museum who curiously examinesthe winged bulls, lions, and other mysterious figures from Ninevah, can scarcely fail to be convinced that they are not meresculptured ornaments, but symbols of certain mysteries and

ceremonies of the primeval religion of Assyria. The era of

these sculptures is so remote, and the traditions respecting

them so obscure, that the inquiry into their signification isdifficult, and the conclusions arrived at unsatisfactory: stillsome attempt has been made to penetrate the mystery which

surrounds them. The chief mythological figures are thewinged bull with a man's face; the winged lion with a man'sface; the winged man with a fir-cone in one hand and a square

basket or vessel in the other; and a man with the head andwings of a hawk. The hypothesis which Mr. Ravenshaw, ina paper read to the Asiatic Society, maintains with respect

to them is,

that they are, as already surmised by Mr. Layard,

the originals of

the apocalyptic beasts of

St. John; and that,slightly modified, they were afterwards adopted, and are nowused, as the symbols o

f

the four Evangelists. Further, thatthey were originally invented by the Magi and Chaldeans a

s

astronomical symbols of

the equinoctial and solstitial points;that they represent in fact the four seasons— Spring, Summer,autumn, and winter; and perhaps also the four winds and thefour elements.

In support and illustration of

these views, the writer enters

into an examination of

the passages in the Old Testament and

in other writings, regarding the cherubim, showing that there

is no authority in Scripture for supposing them to be bodilessinfants, and comes to the conclusion that the face o

fa cherub

was in reality the face ofa bull. At an early period of

the

Christian Church, these winged animals were adopted as the

symbols of

the four Evangelists. The winged lion was assigned to St. Mark, as the symbol of strength; the winged ox

58 The SPHINX.

to St. Luke, as the symbol of sacrifice; the eagle and chaliceto St. John, as the symbol of contemplation; and the winged

man with a cup and hatchet to St. Matthew, as the symbol ofpower. The employment of these figures as astronomicalsymbols formed the next branch of inquiry, and the conclusions were that the colossal bulls are symbols of the sun

in Taurus, or the Vernal equinox; that the winged man isMitra or Serosh, the guardian of the autumnal equinox; andthe winged man-lion and eagle-headed man the symbols of thesolstices, being the four cherubim who watched the gates ofHeaven, and upheld the Zodiac.

As regards the other mythological figures, it is probable

that the man with a goat in his arms represents the constellation Capricorn, and the fish-god, that of Pisces. All thenames of the gods found in the Ninevah inscriptions will probably, on further inquiry, prove to be the names of constellations, stars, or planets, chosen as the guardian angels of nations, kings, or individuals. The mystic tree, which forms soconspicuous an object in the sculptures, has evidently some

astronomical signification. The number of its rosettes orleaves vary considerably, but never exceed thirty; and thewinged circle, or the new moon and some stars, are generally

seen above it.

Hence it seems probable that these trees wereorreries showing the month, day, o

r

season which is being

celebrated by the winged figures or priests who are represented

in connection with them. The winged circles or eyes, which

are frequently placed above the sacred tree, and seem to form

the principle object of adoration, so closely resemble the

winged globes on the portals of

the Egyptian temples, that it

is difficult to disbelieve the identity of

their origin. At firstthey were probably typical of time. These speculationsmay appear more curious than profitable; still it cannot beuninteresting to inquire what were the ideas o

f

men 3,000

years ago, when the earth was comparatively young; to

learn what were the traditions of Asia as to the origin and

destiny of

the human race, and what notions were thenentertained as to the Creator and Governor of the universe.

John TIMBs, F. S. A.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 59

Che Elmerican (5rammar of £13trology.

CHAPTER XIII. Continued.— DESCRIPTIONS OF PERSONS BORNWITH PLANETS IN EITHER OF THE TWELVE SIGNS.

LEO ON THE ASCENDANT witH

The Sun in Aries.

Strong, well-made person, good complexion, though notvery clear, light hair and large eyes; noble, valiant andcourageous, delighting in warlike enterprises, in which heis victorious and becomes famous.

The Sun in Taurus.

Short, well-set ugly person, with a dark complexion,

brown hair, large broad face, wide mouth and a largenose; confident, proud, bold, fond of opposition, proud

of his physical strength and is generally victorious.

The Sun in Gemini.

Well-proportioned body, sanguine complexion, brownhair; affable, courteous, kind, not very fortunate, andbeing of a meek disposition is sometimes controlled orimposed upon by others.

The Sun in Cancer.

Badly-formed body, some defect in the face, brown hair;

unhealthy-looking, harmless, cheerful, indolent, not fond

of employment, but fond of sports and the opposite sex.The Sun in Leo.

Strong, well-proportioned body, sanguine complexion,

light brown hair, full face and prominent eyes, often amark or scar on the face; upright, just, honorable, punctual, faithful, magnanimous, scorns anything mean, ambitious to rule and fond of conquest.

The Sun in Virgo.

Rather tall, slender, well-proportioned figure, good complexion, dark, plentiful hair; ingenious, cheerful, fond ofhonest recreations and social gatherings.

6O the SPHINX.

The Sun in Libra.Tall, slender body, full eyes, oval face, light hair, ruddy

complexion, sometimes having pimples; honorable, possessing a good disposition, but unfortunate in all ambitious schemes.

The Sun in Scorpio.

Squarely-built, fleshy person, broad face, sunburnt complexion and brown hair; ingenious, possessing an overbearing temper and disagreeable manners, ambitious and

will not admit an equal; is fortunate upon the water or as

a physician or surgeon.

The Sun in Sagittarius.Tall, handsome, well-proportioned body, oval face, sunburnt complexion, light brown hair; lofty, proud-spirited,

aiming at great things, austere and severe; will undertakesome honorable affair and receive distinction thereby.

The Sun in Capricorn.

Mean stature with an ugly, thin body, oval face, sicklycomplexion, soft brown hair; just, honorable, possessing agood temper, though hasty at times, is fond of the opposite

sex and makes friends by his agreeable conversation.

The Sun in Aquarius.

The

Middle stature, well-made, corpulent body, round, full

face with a clear complexion and light brown hair; possesses a good disposition, but is proud, ostentatious anddesires to rule over others.

Sun in Pisces.

Rather short, plump body, round face, and poor complexion, light brown hair; effeminate, fond of pleasure,

and though harmless to others, he ruins himself by extravagance and intemperance.

TAURUS OR LIBRA on THE ASCENDANT with

Venus in Aries.

Middle stature, slender body, light hair, good complexion,

sometimes marked with smallpox or with a scar on theface; rather pensive and generally unfortunate.

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY. 6I

Venus in Taurus.

Tall, well made, handsome brunette with a ruddy complexion, soft, luxuriant brown hair, sometimes shining

black, dark expressive eyes; kind disposition, winning

temper, fortunate and much respected.

Venus in Gemini.

Tall, slender, upright, well-made body, fair complexion,

soft brown hair and brown eyes; good-humored, loving,

generous, just and charitable; never guilty of anythingdishonorable.

Venus in Cancer.

Short, stout person with a round, pale, sickly face, light

hair, small grey or greenish eyes; idle, fond of company

and pleasure, fickle, timid, appearing to be in earnest when

not really so, inconstant and changeable.

Venus in Leo.

Rather tall stature, well-formed body, clear complexion,

round face, full eye, freckled skin and red hair; passionate,

soon angry but as soon appeased again, generous, goodnatured, proud, and often indisposed, though not seriously so.

Wenus in Virgo.

Tall, well-proportioned figure, oval face, dark hair andcomplexion; eloquent, active, clever, aspiring, rarely successful and often unfortunate.

Wenus in Libra.

Tall, elegant person, extremely well made, having a goodcarriage, oval face sometimes freckled, pleasing smile and

beautiful dimples, soft brown hair, which is thick and long;kind, affectionate and beloved by everyone.

Venus in Scorpio.

Short, stout, corpulent body, broad face and dark complexion with dark hair, not a pleasant expression; quar

relsome and vicious and guilty of improper actions.

62 The SPHINX.

Venus in Sagittarius.

Rather tall, well-made body, clear complexion, oval face,

brown hair; generous, proud, passionate, good-tempered,kind, delighting in innocent recreations and very fortunate.

Venus in Capricorn.

Small-sized, short person, thin, pale face, dark hair; fond

of pleasure and eating, unfortunate, subject to suddenchanges and strange catastrophies.

Venus in Aquarius.

Handsome, well-formed person, with a clear complexion,

brown hair, large body; quiet, affable, courteous, obliging,

much respected and generally fortunate.

Venus in Pisces.

Middle stature, plump body, good complexion, round face,

with a dimple in the chin; good-natured, just, kind, ingenious, somewhat unstable, but rather fortunate.

[To be continued.]

This is the ordinary and open way of his providence, which art andindustry have in good part discovered; whose effects we may foretell without an oracle. To foreshadow these is not prophecy but prognostication.

There is another way full of meanders and labyrinths, whereof the deviland spirits have no exact ephemerides; and that is a more particular and

obscure method of his providence; directing the operations of individualand single essences: this we call fortune; that serpentine and crooked line,

whereby he draws those actions his wisdom intends, in a more unknown

and secret way; this cryptic and involved method of his providence have Iever admired; nor can I relate the history of my life, the occurrences ofmy days, the escapes, or dangers, or hits of chance, with a bezo las manosto fortune, or a bare gramercy to my good stars. Abraham might havethought the ram in the thicket came there by chance: human reason

would have said, that mere chance conveyed Moses in the ark to the sight

of Pharaoh's daughter. What a labyrinth is there in the story of Joseph 1able to convert a stoic. Surely there are in every man's life certain rubs,

doubtings and wrenches, which pass awhile under the effects of chance;

but at the last if well examined, prove the mere hand of God.SIR THoMAS BrowNE, Religio Medici.

NOTES AND QUERIES. 63

flotes and Querieś.

CAN you give me any information in reference to ThomasHague the Philadelphia astrologer, who published an astrological magazine for several years, and died some twenty ortwenty-five years ago? N. C.

Thomas Hague was a native of England and a weaver by

trade. Losing his wife and children by death, when quite ayoung man, he came to the United States, and followed histrade until his hands became crippled by rheumatism and hard

work. He then took up the practice of Astrology, which hehad studied a little in England. He used to boast, he had

been consulted professionally by every President from 1837 to1862, including Lincoln. His friends say, he was cross andpetulant with customers, and the latter years of his life drank

to excess, and died in the Philadelphia poorhouse. We haveheard, that his horoscope was cast by an astrologer before he

left England, who said it was very unfortunate. The person

who gave us the above information, collected a large number

of the “United States Horoscope,” which Hague published formany years, about fifty in all, but a few odd issues are missing.

The first issue was a small affair of twelve pages, dated May,

1838, and the last in his possession is dated October, 1856.

It was probably continued some years later.In Thomas Hague's “Horoscope" for July, 1848, is thefollowing :

“Thomas Jefferson.— It may not be generally known, thatthis great patriot and statesman was an astrologer; but let

those who doubt the fact, examine his library in the capitol atWashington, where will be found most of the standard works onAstrology, with notes in his own hand on the pages.”

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From “Fred Burry's Journal,” Toronto, Canada.As some of our readers take an interestin astrology, although it is a subject thatwe know very little about, we wish to givespace to the notice of a new magazine calledTHE SPHINX published in the interest ofastrology. It is a remarkably imposingaffair, and mechanically equal to any of themagazines on the market; and quite aventure, but will undoubtedly receive muchsupport.

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The latest bidder for popularity in thefield of periodical literature is THE SPHINXwhich is devoted to critical research within

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should at least give it an examination inorder to determine for themselves how far

THE SPHINX deserves intelligent thought.The list of contributors includes the leadingastrologers of the world.

From “The Flaming Sword,” Chicago.

THE SPHINX is a well-printed and wellcovered Magazine devoted to astrology, andwe do not hesitate to say that it is themost popular astrological publication in theUnited States, and promises to be a success.It is of interest to note that it is edited bya woman, and among it

s

contributors arethe foremost astrologers o

f Europe andAmerica.

From “Star of the Magi." Chicago.

The December SPHINX is by

far the mostcreditable astrological monthly we haveever seen. It is gotten up in magnificentstyle, and it

s

contents are fully in keeping.We congratulate the followers o

f

the StarryScience in having such a valuable publication at their disposal. It is bound to prove

a powerful factor for respectability and integrity in its chosen field, and one that hastoo long been occupied largely b

y

ignorantpretenders to the Art of Hermes.

PRESS COMMENTS,- Com/zzazzed.vºw wº

From “The Ceylon Independent,” Colombo.

Messrs. Wijeyaratna & Co. have sent usTHE SPHINX, a magazine published inBoston by the Sphinx Publishing Company.

The Company is to be congratulated uponthe attractiveness of the first number. Itimpresses one at first sight as being a thoroughly first-class publication and one thatcannot fail to interest thoughtful people.One of the features of THE SPHINX is agrammar that is running as a serial, whichis well and accurately compiled, and willbe of incalculable benefit to beginners inthe science. We hope that Messrs. Wijeyaratna & Co. have made arrangements fora regular stock of this elegantly printed andably-edited magazine.

From “The Times-Union,” Albany, N. Y.THE SPHINX has reached its first Christmas number in its first year of publicationand presents an excellent issue for the consideration of thoughtful readers. From acareful review of the able articles presentedthis month it is manifest, that the horoscopecast in this paper predicting success for THESPHINX, is becoming an actuality. ** (THE SPHINx has had a phenomenal success.--ED.)

From “The Sunday Gazetteer,” Denison, Texas.

The Christmas number of THE SPHINx,that unique monthly whose editor believesthat our fate is ruled by the stars, is beforeus. THE SPHINX is devoted to a revival ofthat most ancient of sciences, astrology,which was supposed to have been explodedyears ago. The editor is undoubtedly anenthusiast on this subject and it must beconfessed after scanning the pages of thishandsome publication that there are ablewriters of the same way of thinking. Thecontents are certainly interesting, and as theoccult is now a fad not by any means confined to the illiterate and superstitious, THESPHINX will very likely reach a generous circulation. The curious will be entertained,the believers will find within its covers much

to whet their appetites, and the skeptics

matter to puzzle their wits over.

From “Fred Burry's Journal,” Toronto, Canada.As some of our readers take an interestin astrology, although it is a subject thatwe know very little about, we wish to givespace to the notice of a new magazine calledTHE SPHINX published in the interest ofastrology. It is a remarkably imposingaffair, and mechanically equal to any of themagazines on the market; and quite aventure, but will undoubtedly receive muchsupport.

From “The Daily Item,” New Orleans.The December number of THE SPHINX:is a handsomely printed magazine and thecontents are of an inestimable value. It isdevoted to the science of astrology, and itaims to promote a belief in the theories ofastronomical prophecy. THE SPHINx isinteresting even to those who have no knowledge of the stars, and the articles thoughtechnically treated are so clearly handledthat the ordinary reader can take an interest in them.The editor is a woman and to her is duemuch praise and commendation for herenterprise and for the success the magazinehas thus far achieved.

From “The Times-Herald and Citizen,” Florida.The December number of THE SPHINXis a beauty and contains a table of contentsof rare value to the student, and they arehandled in such a manner as not to be toothoroughly scientific to the average reader.

From “The Sunday Herald,” Baltimore.The latest bidder for popularity in thefield of periodical literature is THE SPHINxwhich is devoted to critical research withinthe domain of astrology. There are unquestionably many who believe that thestars have some occult influence upon thedestinies of man, and all these will be interested in the new publication. Skeptics

should at least give it an examination inorder to determine for themselves how farTHE SPHINX deserves intelligent thought.The list of contributors includes the leadingastrologers of the world.

From “The Flaming Sword,” Chicago.

THE SPHINx is a well-printed and wellcovered Magazine devoted to astrology, andwe do not hesitate to say that it is themost popular astrological publication in theUnited States, and promises to be a success.It is of interest to note that it is edited bya woman, and among its contributors arethe foremost astrologers of Europe andAmerica.

From “Star of the Magi,” Chicago.

The December SPHINX is by far the mostcreditable astrological monthly we haveever seen. It is gotten up in magnificentstyle, and its contents are fully in keeping.

We congratulate the followers of the StarryScience in having such a valuable publication at their disposal. It is bound to provea powerful factor for respectability and integrity in its chosen field, and one that hastoo long been occupied largely by ignorantpretenders to the Art of Hermes.

PRESS COMMENTS,

From “The Evening Bulletin,” Providence, R. I.

SCIENCE AND SPECULATION.

No one needs to be told that astrology isan ancient and honorable science. Originally it included what is now called astronomy; but so vital a subject as the influenceof the planets upon mundane affairs wasbound to receive separate consideration.Great men, even in times comparativelymodern, have consulted the stars. TheChaldeans were the most advanced astrologers of their day. But of course duringthe Middle Ages the pagan characteristicsof the science disappeared and goodchurchmen did not hesitate to patronize itsprofessors. Cicero was a skeptic in his dayand would not believe in the deities of thesky; but that pious monarch, Louis XI. ofFrance, who went to mass as readily as tomurder, had the celebrated Galeotti in histrain. Indeed, astrology flourished aboutas freely just before the Reformation as ithad done centuries before in Babylon;although perhaps its predictions were notalways fulfilled so conspicuously as in Belshazzar's case. The Reformation helped todestroy faith in this great science as in someother things; yet there remained believerseven among Protestants—Melanchthon, forexample. Dryden had his children's nativities reckoned. Fludd and Lilly published“Almanacks" that foretold the Plague,the Fire of London, and the murder ofCharles I.Why, then, with the examples of greatmen before us, should we scoff at theheavenly science? Surely it is no more incredible that the stars should direct our fate

than that we should be cured of disease bytelling ourselves that we are not ill. Indeedastrology is a far more practical thing thanChristian Science. It may direct us inhealth as well as in sickness. It is thefuture, after all, that troubles us quite asmuch as the past or the present. If wecould read the future we should be able toget on without any past at all— that is

,

of

kind that rises to vex us. How to readthe future is the sole business of the astrologer o

f

these days. In THE SPHINX, a

new publication devoted to the science, is

striking proof of

this. Of course there is

much that is merely abstract, much of horo

scopes and zodiacal signs in general, butthe real interest of THE SPHINX lies in its

prophecies.-

Continued.

vº wº

It is no wonder that the editor touchingly remarks that the quality o

f

the circulation reached by THE SPHINX is “unique.”Everyone cannot appreciate the fine points

of

the science of astrology. There are

uneducated persons who would call it a

gross humbug, and who would say that thesale o

fa Sugar Speculum was on its face a

piece of absurdity worthy of the Dark Ages.

But let such scoffers keep silent. This is

the true Age of

Faith. Astrology, Christian Science, Spiritualism and all the othersuperstitions are taken up with enthusiasmby those who find the doctrines o

f

theChristian religion improbable. The logic

of

their position may be weak, but whatglorious testimony they offer to the capacity

of

the human intellect to believe anything !

From “The Psychic Mirror,” London.

THE SPHINX, a new monthly, is devotedto critical research within the domain ofastrology. Among the contributors to thismagazine are men o

f light and learning,some o

f

whom I have no hesitation in say

ing, will “ leave footprints on the sands of

time.” These names constitute a kind ofguarantee for the future respectability o

f

this journal; that it will ever contain whatwill accord with the most refined taste, aswell as furnish the most erudite with something for thought and reflection. Suchbeing the case, I doubt not the AmericanSPHINX will prove as notorious as her

fabled prototype. The latter propoundedquestions and fabricated riddles, but theformer answers questions and solves riddles.

From “The World's Advance Thought."

We are glad to report the advent of THESPHINX, a first-class magazine devoted to

the science of astrology. The July and

August numbers contain much valuable information, not only to the astrological student, but to all who are interested in advancethought. This handsome magazine containsthe contribution o

f

the leading astrologers

in the world, and is cheap at

three dollars a

year.

From “The Needham Hustler," Indiana.

THE SPHINX has just come to our table.

It is a large monthly and a glance over itsprospectus will convince the most skepticalthat it possesses great merit as an astrolog

ical journal.

PRESS COMMENTS,- Com/inued.

\; \vFrom “The Indianapolis Sentinel.”

One of the purposes of THE SPHINX isto reprint, from time to time, the most famous of old astrological works which arenow out of print, and to show the Americanpeople that astrology is a true art, and thatits rules can be thoroughly comprehendedby those who will study them.

From “The Iowa State Register.”

In Europe a few earnest men are spending their best years in an endeavor to wrestfrom the stars some of their long hiddensecrets, and, in a measure, they have succeeded. There are thousands in every landtoday, and especially in America, who aremaking astrology a living force, and whoare slowly winning for it a greater popularity than it ever enjoyed, even in thosepalmy days when star readers were consulted by all classes, from emperors downto peasants.

From ** The Milwaukee Sentinel.”

THE SPHINx comes as the pioneer periodical in the American field of astrology.It is attractive in appearance and wellworthy of liberal patronage on the part ofthose who would read their destinies in theStarS.

From ** The Detroit Free Press. ”The initial number of THE SPHINX certainly makes an excellent appearance, andshould appeal to all interested in this latelyrevived science. It is well printed andlooks as if it had come to stay.

From “The Grand Rapids Herald.”

The September issue of THE SPHINX isexceedingly rich in interesting articles uponthe subject of astrology, and from cover tocover there is not a dull page, but everyarticle holds the reader's closest attention.

While the object of THE SPHINx is to popularize astrology in America, the three issuesfully demonstrate it has struck the rightchord to accomplish the object in view. Ithas a field for itself and fully covers thatfield. The success it has already achievedis only the beginning of a brilliant futurein store for it.

From “The Minneapolis Journal.”

In the new astrological periodical, THESPHINX, there is some interesting matter,and a good many people seem to believe init at this late scientific day.

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From “The World-Herald,” Omaha, Neb.

The purpose of THE SPHINX is a goodone. It aims at a comprehensive study ofastrology, and though one may not indorseits ideas, the reader will find much usefuland interesting information in it

s pages.Astrology is the mother, o

r

root of

astronomy, the noblest o

f

the sciences, andeminent men o

f

all ages have been itsdevotees, even from the days o

f Seth, when“men began to study the stars and callupon God.”

From “The Sunday Gazetteer,” Denison, Tex.

There is a large up-to-date magazine in

Boston, called THE SPHINX, devoted to theancient science o

f astrology, which teachesthe influence of the stars over mundaneaffairs. Among other special features o

f

this odd publication is a monthly forecaston stocks, the result o

f

astronomical calculations according to the rules o

f astrologicalart. It may interest the patrons of theDenison “Commission brokers ” to readthe cotton forecast.

From ** Word and Works.”

We are frank in saying that The SPHINX,

an elegantly printed and ably edited maga

zine, is the most dignified and satisfactoryexponent o

f Judicial Astrology that hascome to our notice.

From “Fibre and Fabric,” Boston.

THE SPHINX, an astrological magazine,has been started in this city, and is finelygotten u

p

and printed. The man is wisewho gives time to studying astrology andkindred subjects. I have spent thousands

of

dollars mastering these things and amwilling to spend thousands more, if anavenue opens through which I can gainstill greater knowledge. Anyone possessingthe knowledge taught in THE SPHINX canopen the door to a man's entire life.

From “The Toledo Daily Blade.”

THE SPHINx is the title of a magazinedevoted to astrology, the first number o

f

which has just appeared. It is designed to

be a popular as well asa scientific maga

zine.

From “The Morning Union," Bridgeport, Conn.

The opening number ofa new magazine

has just reached us. It is called THESPHINX, and its object is to popularizeastrology in America.

PRESS COMMENTS, Cozz/zzazz.co.

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From “Coming Events,” London.

A most attractive exterior has THESPHINx, whose archaic effigy appears between two lotus columns on the cover of the

journal. The printing and general get-up

is everything that could be desired : goodpaper, good letterpress, a broad margin,and, above all, very interesting contents.At sight of the journal our estimate of thebusiness capacity o

f

its able editress “wentup to midsummer.”

From “Modern Astrology,” London.

THE SPHINX, which is the title of the newAmerican astrological magazine, is just to

hand. The able editor may be justly proud

of

her first production. If the contents continue up to the standard o

f

the articles contained in the first number, then its success is

assured.

From “The Cincinnati Enquirer.”

PRACTICAL PROPHECY, TAUGHT BY A NEwPUBLICATION, EDITED BY A WOMAN.

The most novel publication of

recent years

is THE SPHINX, just issued in Boston. It is

a handsomely printed magazine, devotedwholly to the mystic science o

f astrology, and

to the promotion of

belief in the theories of

astronomical prophecy. An example of itsfeatures is a “Wheat Forecast for theChicago Board o

f

Trade for July, 1899.”

From “The Pittsburg Times.”THE SPHINX is the latest candidate forpopular favor. It is a high-class publication,with contributions from the most eminentastrologers, and it aims not only to be a

medium for the propagation of

the bestideas in this ancient science, which is nowexperiencing a revival, but to present thefacts and arguments bearing on that science

in such shape that they can readily be

grasped and understood by those who areunfamiliar with the technical terms of astrology.

From “The Banner of Light.”

THE SPHINX is the mystic title of the newastrological magazine. A magazine devoted

to so interesting and essential a science,cannot fail to receive a warm welcome from

students. There are many students. Almosteveryone o

f average intelligence is now endeavoring to penetrate the mysteries o

f life,

and he will seek every source where he believes a truth is to be found. Therefore, we

wish THE SPHINX as long and as prosperous

a life as its historic namesake, and trust it

will become as well known to fame.

From “The Baltimore Daily News.”

The new magazine, THE SPHINX, is mostinteresting, even to those who have noknowledge o

f

the science of

the stars. Thelist o

f

contributors embraces many of

the

most prominent American and Europeanastrologers. The subjects discussed, while

ofa more or

less technical nature, are handled in such a manner a

s

to be thoroughlyintelligible to the uninitiated.

From “The Concord Evening Monitor.”

THE SPHINX is an attractive publication,and its object is stated to be “to popularizeastrology in America,” and in its prospectus

and its first number it certainly gives goodpromise. Its contents are highly entertaining to believers and unbelievers in astrology.

From “The Times Union,” N. Y.THE SPHINX is a neat publication, contains entertaining reading matter on astrological subjects, and reading the first issue

asa horoscope, its future should be bright,

if the papers prove as interesting as at thefirst attempt.

From “The St. Paul Globe.”

THE SPHINX is the first publication of thekind printed in America, and its owners expect it to fill a long-felt want. The articles

in the first issue are numerous and entertaining, particularly its “Wheat Forecast forthe Chicago Board o

f

Trade.”

From “The Daily Picayune,” New Orleans.One of the features of THE SPHINX is a

grammar of astrology, which is running as

a serial. There is unquestionably a fieldfor such a publication, and it is to be hoped

that the publishers will meet with sufficientencouragement to induce them to continuethe magazine.

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The AStrological Life Speculum.

A Speculum is a chart or map of the heavens drawn to show the positions, aspects,and motions of the Fixed Stars and planets, as they are found at the birth of an individualor at the time of the incorporation of a stock company.

The aspects of the planets are calculated and are classed under two heads, good andevil, and are called by certain names, the good being marked red and the evil black, and aredrawn within a circle, like the dial of a clock. In the center is a hand or indicator, whichshows the swift daily motion of the moon.

It can be demonstrated that whenever the planets in their motions pass the reddegrees, the individual for whom the map is drawn is benefited, or the stock of the company

that has been incorporated is expanded, and that whenever the Planets pass the blackdegrees, the individual experiences anxiety, loss, or sickness, or the stock of the company

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move and the aspects they form, as they travel round the map.Every one should possess a Speculum of his or her life. It shows the good and evil

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Business men are helped by a Speculum to take advantage of favorable opportunities,

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LoNDON, June 2,

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Alan Leo has shown me your Speculum. I think it a well thought-out and ably executed aid, especially for students, who sometimes get “mixed ” in arriving at the various aspects formed b

y

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s yours would have been a great boon in my early struggles with rudimentaryastrology, and I hope it will have a large sale and be appreciated a

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I have read your “Key ’’ carefully, and I think it an excellent work.GABRIEL.

LoNDoN, June 12, 1899.Your valuable and interesting “Key'' is first-class work.

KYMRY.

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CONTENTS OF BACK NUMBERS

l}olume Olle.

JULY, 1899.THE SPHINX . - - - - - - - - -AstroLogy of Today - - - - - -

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THE USES OF ASTROLOGY . - - - - -

WHY SOCIALISM CAN NOT EVENTUATE - - -

PROPHETIC HIEROGLYPHICS - - - - -

“CoME OVER INTO MACEDONIA AND HELP US ’’ - -HoRoscope of DREYFUs . - - - - - - -NEPTUNE IN THE NURSERY - - - - - - -

THE SUMMER SOLSTICE AND LUNAR ECLIPSE . - - -

WHEAT For ECAst For JULY . - - - - - -

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DAILY ADvice . - - -

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR of ASTROLOGY. (Alevised) . -

LETTERS TO THE Editor - - - - -

AUGUST, 1899.

THE SPHINX. (A Poem)THE USEs of ASTROLOGY.THE GODS OF HELLAs . - - - - -

VIRGO THE RULING SIGN OF THE UNITED STATES .ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY - - - - - -SENSITIVE POINTS IN THE HOROSCOPE . - -

PROPHEtic HIEROGLYPHics. (Concluded) - -

(Cincluded) ; : -

KABALISTIC HOROSCOPE OF HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEwBIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DAILY ADVICE .WHEAT FORECAST . - - - - - -

A SUGAR HINT - - - - -

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY.A DREAM OF THE UNIVERSE . -

(Revised)

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF ARIES - -

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. - - - - -

SEPTEMBER,

THE SPHINX . - - - - - - -ASTROLOGICAL ETHICs . - - - -

ASTROLOGY AND HORSE RACING . - - -

HOROSCOPE OF THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA . -

ON THE MAKING OF ALMANACs - - -

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF TAURUS .WHEAT FORECAST . - -

KABALISTIC HOROSCOPE OF EDISON . - -

How To Give JUDGMENT ON THE SUGAR MAPTHE AUTUMNAL EQUINox. - - - -

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DAILY ADvice . -

DID THE HEBREws WORSHIP THE MOON ? - -

A SCORPIO INFLUENCE - - - - - -

THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR of ASTRoLogy. (A’evised)LETTERs To THE EDITOR . - - - - -

1899.

ELY STARGABRIELSEPHARIALHEINRICH DAATHALAN LEOASMOTHIELKYMRYHERMESHAZELRIGGCERESASTORC. H. ThompsoN

EMERSONSEPHARIALKYM RYJoseph TILLEYALAN LEOAPHORELALAN LEOASMOTHIELASTORCERESPALLAsC. H. THOMPSONJ. P. RichterELY STAR

JAMES Boxwick, F.R.G.S.

Rev.

SEPHARIALGABRIELKYMRYHAZELRIGGELY STARCERESASMOTHIELC. H. THOMPsoxHAZELRIGGASTORTIMOTHY HARLEYA REvi EwC. H. THOMPSON

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IN MEMORIA M .SPHINX RELIGIONTHE NEw ERA .

OCTOBER, 1899.

THE Asi Ro LoG 1c ORIGIN of the ILL-FATED NUMBER THIRTEENTHE SIGN RULERSHIP of Towns - - -

THE ENQUIRy CoNCERNING OUR NATION's NATIvityKABA Listic HoRoscope of Edison . - - - -

QN SENsitive Poists IN THE HoRoscope. (Continued) -

THE CHARACTER AND Fortus Es of GEMINI . -W HEAT For ECAstAN ILLUSTRATED HoRoscope

THE NEw Moos For OctoberB1RTHDAY IN ForMATION AND DAILY ADvice .THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR of AstroLOGY. (Aevised)EDITORIAL NotesLETTERs to THE EDITOR

NOVEMBER,

SPHINX RELIGION. (Continued) -

THE DURATION OF LIFE .HINDU ASTROLOGY . - - - - - -

SoME EARLY Aspects of Divis ATION . - -HoRoscope of MRs. LANGTRY - - -

THE THIRTEENTH ZooLACAL SIGN. (Concluded)ASTROLOGICAL DIRECTIONs - -

ON SENsitive Points IN THE HoRoscope.THE CHARACTER AND Forru NEs of CANceR . -

AN ILLUSTRATED HoRoscopeTHE NEw Moox for Nov EMBER .

W HEAT For ECASTCoTTON FoRECASTPROPHECYING ALMANACs . - -

BIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DAILY Advice .THE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY.EDITORIAL NoTES - -

LETTERs to the EDITOR

SPHINX RELIGION.

Twi Ns:

(Continued) -

ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY . -

HoRoscope of A NATIONAL H ERO .WHAT IS DIRECTIONAL MOTION ?W HEAT FORECASTTHE BEST DAYS TO PLANT IN 1900

(Ā'evised)

DECEMBER,

A CASE FOR THE HYLEG AND THE PRIMARY ARC .

THE CHARACTER AND FORTUNES OF LEOCOTTON FORECASTTHE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF

CATION .

KABALISTIC HOROSCOPE OF

A STRANGE STORYBIRTHDAY INFORMATION AND DTHE AMERICAN GRAMMAR OF ASTROLOGY.Not Es AND QUERIESEDITORIAL -

LETTERs to THE EDITOR

BACK NUMBERS FIFTY CENTS.

M R. ICKERS S PRED -BICKERSTAFF's PREDICTION

RUDYARD KIPLING -AN EXPLANATION AND A POLOGYTHE NEw MOON FOR DECEMBER

-Al LY Advice . :

(Alevised)

SENT

(Concluded)

1899.

1899.

JAMES

GABRIELBoxwick, F.R.G.S.SEPHARIALANNA PHARosHEINRICH DAATHHAZELRIGGASMOTHIELAPHORELELY STARCERESC. H. THOMPSONHAzELRico,ASTORC. H. THOMPSON

Boxwick, F.R.G.S.GABRIELSEPHARIALHEINRICH DAATHKYM RYANNA PHAROSW. H. CHAN EYAPHORELELY STARC. H. THOMPSONHAZELRIGGCERES

J. J. STUDENT, Jr.HORACE WELBYASTORC. H. THOMPSON

- JAMES BON wick, F.R.G.S.SEPHARIALHE IN RICH IDAATHKYM RYB. C. MURRAYCERESL. CHADwickELY STARJ. J. STUDENT, Jr.

DEAN Swi FTASMOTHIELKYMRYHAZELRIGGE. HARTASTORC. H. THOMPSON

POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF PRICE

Cbe ºpbinr Dublighing Company

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THE ASTROLOGERS DIRECTORY,(Cards under this heading are to occupy a uniform space of five lines each. Terms, $1.00 a

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Every Astrologer should have his card constantly in THE SPHINX, in order that ourreaders may become familiar with his name and location. This, besides showing thesupport of America's representative Astrological Magazine, will prove a profitable investment, as many new clients are sure to respond.In addition to our large list of regular paid-in-advance subscribers, THE SPHINX is

read by thousands of investigators, who secure sample copies and hand them to theirfriends.

These people, comprising professional and business men, brokers, commercial travelers,etc., have not entirely accepted the truth of the Science, and are consulting differentAstrologers for the purpose of making comparisons. They pay liberally for work done,and from their ranks are constantly being converted recruits to the Truth, who ultimately become subscribers to the Magazine that first pointed out the path to them.

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